(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are ...

This column is based on a narrated slide deck and longer article that you can view at ConnectSafely.org/moralpanic. There has been a lot of ink spilled on doomsday ...

Public fear, and those responsible for creating or promoting it, are major topics of discussion these days. The sociological and criminological concept known as moral panic offers valuable insights ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ron Barrett, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The day before Charlie Kirk was ...

The day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I was teaching a college class on science, religion and magic. Our class was comparing the Salem witch trials of the 1690s with the McCarthy hearings of ...

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