What’s Inside Glenn Beck’s Brain?

A map of all the obsessions and conspiracies that fueled his soon-to-be-gone Fox News show.

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Glenn Beck has announced that he “intends to transition off of his daily program” on Fox News later this year. It’s not clear what killed The Glenn Beck Show—perhaps it was the fleeing advertisers or the shrinking audiences. Or perhaps it was the increasingly bizarro obsessions and labyrinthine conspiracy theories, which we’ve attempted to catalog in this map of the inner workings of Beck’s brain.

Beck's Brain Scan

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