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Научно-исследовательский центр в Санта-Монике (Калифорния), один из крупнейших «мозговых трестов» США. Основан в 1946 году.

Здесь и далее курсивом, как у автора, выделены русские слова (в оригинале транслитерированные латиницей). Слово «дезинформация» встречается в тексте и в его обычной форме без дополнительных смыслов, но дезинформация обозначает именно российский источник.

Герой пьесы французского абсурдиста Альфреда Жарри (1873–1907).

Кукла, комический персонаж, который (с помощью своего создателя Роберта Смигела) пародирует знаменитостей в медиа, говоря при этом с восточноевропейским акцентом.

Дэниэл Патрик Мойнихэн (англ. Daniel Patrick Moynihan; 1927–2003) – американский государственный деятель, социолог.

Томас Коннерли «Том» Вулф-младший (англ. Thomas Kennerly «Tom» Wolfe, Jr., 1930–2018) – американский журналист и писатель, пионер направления «новая журналистика» в литературе.

Филип Милтон Рот (англ. Philip Milton Roth; 1933–2018) – американский писатель, автор более 25 романов, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии (1998) и Международной Букеровской премии (2011).

Перевод Г. Кружкова.

Винсент Фостер, советник президента Клинтона по правовым и финансовым вопросам, работал с Хиллари в юридической компании в Литтл-Рок (Арканзас). Он должен был давать показания перед конгрессом о документах, которые Клинтон отказалась предоставить. 21 июля он был обнаружен с простреленной головой в парке в Вашингтоне. По словам свидетелей, на момент обнаружения в руках у него не было оружия, но затем оно там появилось. В деле было много неясностей, но полиция в итоге закрыла его как самоубийство.

Программа под названием «Отложенные меры в отношении детей-иммигрантов» (DACA), которая давала возможность отсрочить депортацию для более чем 750 тысяч детей нелегальных иммигрантов, была принята президентом Бараком Обамой. Ее отмена была одним из предвыборных обещаний Трампа.

Фархад Манжу (англ. Farhad Manjoo) – техноколумнист The New York Times, журналист, писатель.

Сьюзен Джекоби (англ. Susan Jacoby) – репортер The Washington Post, автор книги «Эпоха неразумия в Америке» («The Age of American Unreason»).

Запрещенная в РФ организация. – Прим. ред.

Стивен Кевин «Стив» Бэннон (англ. Stephen Kevin Bannon) – американский альтернативно-консервативный политический активист, представляющий Республиканскую партию. С 20 января по 18 августа 2017 года – главный стратег, старший советник 45-го президента США Дональда Трампа по политическим и стратегическим вопросам, один из наиболее влиятельных сотрудников администрации президента.

Дэвид Фостер Уоллес (англ. David Foster Wallace; 1962–2008) – американский писатель, мыслитель-эссеист.

Международная правозащитная организация.

Евангельские христиане – движение в протестантских конфессиях, получившее название от желания буквального исполнения Евангелия (которое рассматривается как основной источник вероучения).

Джерри Лэймон Фалуэлл (англ. Jerry Lamon Falwell, 1933–2007) – влиятельный американский пастор и телепроповедник. Первоначально Фалуэлл принадлежал к одной из ветвей баптистов, Южной Баптистской Конвенции, однако впоследствии присоединился к Евангельским христианам фундаменталистского толка.

Шон Отто (англ. Shawn Otto) – научный писатель, романист, в прошлом сценарист.

Дэвид Леман (англ. David Lehman) – современный американский поэт, литературный критик, редактор.

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Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics,” in Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt, 1972), 6.

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Glenn Kessler and Meg Kelly, “President Trump Made 2,140 False or Misleading Claims in His First Year,” Washington Post, Jan. 10, 2018.

Anoosh Chakelian, “Boris Johnson Resurrects the Leave Campaign’s £350M for NHS Fantasy,” New Statesman, Sept. 16, 2017.

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“Read Sen. Jeff Flake’s Speech Criticizing Trump,” CNN Politics, Jan. 17, 2018.

Philip Bump, “Assessing a Clinton Argument That the Media Helped to Elect Trump,” Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2017.

Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, and Peter Baker, “Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation,” New York Times, Dec. 9, 2017.

David Barstow, “Donald Trump’s Deals Rely on Being Creative with the Truth,” New York Times, July 16, 2016.

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Hofstadter, там же.

Ishaan Tharoor, “Geert Wilders and the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism,” Washington Post, Mar. 14, 2017; Elisabeth Zerofsky, “Europe’s Populists Prepare for a Nationalist Spring,” New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2017; Jason Horowitz, “Italy’s Populists Turn Up the Heat as Anti-Migrant Anger Boils,” New York Times, Feb. 5, 2018.

Ed Ballard, “Terror, Brexit, and U. S. Election Have Made 2016 the Year of Yeats,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 23, 2016.

William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming,” poetryfoundation.org. Уильям Батлер Йейтс. Второе пришествие.

“Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories,” Newsweek, Feb. 8, 2010.

Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes, “In a New Poll, Half of Republicans Say They Would Support Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It,” Washington Post, Aug. 10, 2017.

Melissa Healy, “It’s More Than the ‘Rigged’ Election: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Believe in Conspiracy Theories,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 2016; Shankar Vedantam, “More Americans Than You Might Think Believe in Conspiracy Theories,” NPR, June 4, 2014.

Eric Bradner, “Trump Praises 9/11 Truther’s ‘Amazing’ Reputation,” CNN Politics, Dec. 2, 2015.

Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, and Glenn Thrush, “Stephen Bannon Out at the White House After Turbulent Run,” New York Times, Aug. 18, 2017.

Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, and Philip Rucker, “Doubting the Intelligence, Trump Pursues Putin and Leaves a Russian Threat Unchecked,” Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2017; Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris, and Greg Jaffe, “Breaking with Tradition, Trump Skips President’s Written Intelligence Report and Relies on Oral Briefings,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 2018.

Charlie Warzel and Lam Thuy Vo, “Here’s Where Donald Trump Gets His News,” BuzzFeed, Dec. 3, 2016; Dean Obeidallah, “Trump Talks Judgment, Then Cites National Enquirer,” CNN, May 4, 2016.

Haberman, Thrush, and Baker, “Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation.”

Alex Thompson, “Trump Gets a Folder Full of Positive News About Himself Twice a Day,” Vice News, Aug. 9, 2017.

Benjamin Hart, “Trump on Unfilled State Department Jobs: ‘I Am the Only One That Matters,’” New York, Nov. 3, 2017; Bill Chappell, “ ‘I’m the Only One That Matters,’ Trump Says of State Dept. Job Vacancies,” The Two-Way, NPR, Nov. 3, 2017.

Lydia Saad, “Americans Widely Support Tighter Regulations on Gun Sales,” Gallup, Oct. 17, 2017.

Max Greenwood, “Poll: Nearly 9 in 10 Want DACA Recipients to Stay in US,” Hill, Jan. 18, 2018.

Harper Neidig, “Poll: 83 Percent of Voters Support Keeping FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules,” Hill, Dec. 12, 2017; Cecilia Kang, “F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules,” New York Times, Dec. 14, 2017.

Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason (New York: Pantheon, 2008), 307; Farhad Manjoo, True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008); Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture (New York: Doubleday, 2007).

Jacoby, Age of American Unreason, xviii.

Jacoby, Age of American Unreason, 307.

Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 1.

Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 38–39.

Michiko Kakutani, “How Feuds and Failures Affected American Intelligence,” New York Times, June 18, 2004; Michiko Kakutani, “All the President’s Books (Minding History’s Whys and Where-fores),” New York Times, May 11, 2006; Julian Borger, “The Spies Who Pushed for War,” Guardian, July 17, 2003; Jason Vest and Robert Dreyfuss, “The Lie Factory,” Mother Jones, Jan./Feb. 2004; Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence,” New Yorker, May 12, 2003; Michiko Kakutani, “Controversial Reports Become Accepted Wisdom,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2004; Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane, “Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds,” Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2003.

Kakutani, “All the President’s Books.”

Ken Adelman, “Cakewalk in Iraq,” Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2002.

Michiko Kakutani, “From Planning to Warfare to Occupation, How Iraq Went Wrong,” New York Times, July 25.

Eugene Kiely, “Donald Trump and the Iraq War,” FactCheck.org, Feb. 19, 2016.

Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bannon Vows a Daily Fight for ‘De-construction of the Administrative State,’ ” Washington Post, Feb. 23, 2017.

Victor Cha, “Giving North Korea a ‘Bloody Nose’ Carries a Huge Risk to Americans,” Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2018.

Bill Chappell, “World’s Regard for U. S. Leadership Hits Record Low in Gallup Poll,” NPR, Jan. 19, 2018; Laura Smith-Spark, “US Slumps in Global Leadership Poll After Trump’s 1st Year,” CNN, Jan. 18, 2018.

Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur,” New York Times, June 29, 2007.

Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 20.

Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 11.

Carlos Ballesteros, “Trump Is Nominating Unqualified Judges at an Unprecedented Rate,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2017; Paul Waldman, “Donald Trump Has Assembled the Worst Cabinet in American History,” The Plum Line (blog), Washington Post, Jan. 19, 2017; Travis Waldron and Daniel Marans, “Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is on Track to Be the Least Experienced in Modern History,” Huffington Post, Nov. 24, 2016.

Tom DiChristopher, “Trump Once Again Seeks to Slash Funding for Clean Energy in 2019 Budget,” CNBC, Jan. 31, 2018.

Brady Dennis, “Scott Pruitt, Longtime Adversary of EPA, Confirmed to Lead the Agency,” Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2017; Umair Irfan, “Scott Pruitt Is Slowly Strangling the EPA,” Vox, Jan. 30, 2018.

Alan Rappeport, “C.B.O. Head, Who Prizes Nonpartisanship, Finds Work Under G. O.P. Attack,” New York Times, June 19, 2017; Steven Rattner, “The Boring Little Budget Office That Trump Hates,” New York Times, Aug. 22, 2017.

Lena H. Sun and Juliet Eilperin, “CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Fetus, Transgender, Diversity,” Washington Post, Dec. 15, 2017.

George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949), 193. Оруэлл Дж. Скотный двор. 1984. М.: АСТ, 2018.

Lisa Friedman, “Syria Joins Paris Climate Accord, Leaving Only U. S. Opposed,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2017.

Lisa Friedman, “Expect Environmental Battles to Be ‘Even More Significant’ in 2018,” New York Times, Jan. 5, 2018.

“President Trump’s War on Science,” New York Times, Sept. 9, 2017; “Attacks on Science,” Union of Concerned Scientists, ucsusa.org; Tanya Lewis, “A Year of Trump: Science Is a Major Casualty in the New Politics of Disruption,” Scientific American, Dec. 14, 2017; Joel Achenbach and Lena H. Sun, “Trump Budget Seeks Huge Cuts to Science and Medical Research, Disease Prevention,” Washington Post, May 23, 2017; Julia Belluz, “The GOP Tax Plan Would Blow a Hole in American Science,” Vox, Dec. 11, 2017.

Brady Dennis, “Trump Budget Seeks 23 Percent Cut at EPA, Eliminating Dozens of Pro-grams,” Washington Post, Feb. 12, 2018.

“Marchers Around the World Tell Us Why They’re Taking to the Streets for Science,” Science, Apr. 13, 2017.

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“Marchers Around the World Tell Us Why They’re Taking to the Streets for Science.”

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Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 419, 425, 924.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 403, 5352.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 5378, 5586.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 1269, 5400.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 2939.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (New York: Viking Press, 1943), loc. 5297, 5378.

David Lehman, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (New York: Poseidon Press, 1991), 75; Michiko Kakutani, “Bending the Truth in a Million Little Ways,” New York Times, Jan. 17, 2006.

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Stephen Collinson and Jeremy Diamond, “Trump Again at War with ‘Deep State’ Justice Department,” CNN Politics, Jan. 2, 2018.

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Ben Illing, “Trump Ran as a Populist. He’s Governing as an Elitist. He’s Not the First,” Vox, June 23, 2017.

Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump,” New Yorker, Oct. 31, 2016.

Christopher Butler, Postmodernism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 15.

Andrew Hartman, A Warfor the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 285.

Ishaan Tharoor, “Fukuyama’s ‘Future of History’: Is Liberal Democracy Doomed?” Time, Feb. 8, 2012.

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Ishaan Tharoor, “The Man Who Declared the ‘End of History’ Fears for Democracy’s Future,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 2017.

Jasmine C. Lee and Kevin Quealy, “The 425 People, Places, and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List,” New York Times, Jan. 3, 2018.

Donie O’Sullivan, “Russian Trolls Created Facebook Events Seen by More Than 300,000 Users,” CNN, Jan. 26, 2018.

William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, “Evangelicals Defend Trump’s Alleged Marital Infidelity. But His Infidelity to America Is Worse,” NBC News, Jan. 30, 2018.

Jennifer Hansler, “Conservative Evangelical Leader: Trump Gets a ‘Mulligan’ on His Behavior,” CNN, Jan. 23, 2018.

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Shawn Otto, The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2016), 177.

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