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Donald Trump on the campaign trail in March 2016
Posted inOpinion

Opinion: Witches, McCarthy, Trump and the History of Mass Hysteria

by Editor May 3, 2019May 4, 2019

There are moments in society when many go mad. Not all — some are skeptics and resistant to collective hysteria. But examples abound about how many in a community can collectively believe an illusion. The fictional examples of the Wizard of Oz and the Emperor’s New Clothes, or the philosophical puzzle in Plato’s Allegory of […]

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