The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear

Himself - Historian of Islamist Movement (3 episodes, 2004)

Himself - Head of Office of Soviet Affairs CIA 1976-87 (2 episodes, 2004)

Himself - Political Philosopher (2 episodes, 2004)

Himself (2 episodes, 2004)

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Himself - Institute of Islamic Political Thought (2 episodes, 2004)

Narrator: But the fear will not last, and just as the dreams that politicians once promised turned out to be illusions, so, too, will the nightmares; and then our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either good or bad, to offer us any longer.

Michael Lind: For the neo-conservatives, religion is an instrument of promoting morality. Religion becomes what Plato called a "noble lie". It is a myth which is told to the majority of the society by the philosophical elite in order to ensure social order.

Narrator: Was Whitewater true?