Writer and academic Colin Dickey is a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world's relationship with mortality. In the first half, he discussed his latest work on the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people continue to subscribe to conspiracy theories about them. Sometimes secret societies are defined and formally recognized, as with the Freemasons, he noted, while at other t… Lees meer