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Currently in the midst of Dorothy Rabinowitz's No Crueler Tyrannies and it is remarkable how much it reads like The Devils of Loudun, the Sequel (and like The Devils of Twitter, the Prequel.) Many of the charges detailed in these cases might have been cut and pasted directly from Huxley's book (and I'm not entirely sure that some of them weren't.) Whatever else you might say about moral panics, we never learn from them. https://amzn.to/2Ub48xY #moralpanic #mobs #witchhunts #minds

No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times (Wall Street Journal Book) by Dorothy Rabinowitz (2004-03-02...

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Feb 26 2019 · 10:25 PM
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