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a shift from an enchanted world toward a world of enlightenment in which demons and specters vanished in the bright light of reason;
Malcolm Gaskill • The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
accused their vanishing
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
wherever self-interest took away from altruism, causing resentment, anxiety and a sense of guilt, witchcraft was apt to flourish,
Malcolm Gaskill • The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
What haunts are the kinds of large historical crimes that, once committed, can never truly be set right.
Malcolm Harris • Palo Alto
cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that.
Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
Although millions of people watched Alexander every week, he was the master of collective insanity, and as the decades tick on he will become ever more irrelevant. Most of what we see around us is the ephemeral mainstream, mass-produced populist commercial trash, designed to go straight through us.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
when every aspect of political, religious and economic existence was in turmoil throughout the Western world. Witches were tangible symbols of this chaos.
Malcolm Gaskill • The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Calcutta diarist William Hickey’s