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The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left to say about these cases. But a close examination of the witch hunt canon leads to some unsettling questions: Why is there so little in the way of academic scholarship about these cases? Almost all of the major witch-hunt writings have been in magazines, often without any footnotes t
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― The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
― The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
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The winter seemed reluctant to let go its bite. It hung on cold and wet and windy long after its time. And people repeated, "It's those damned big guns they're shooting off in France-- spoiling the weather in the whole world.
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― East of Eden
― East of Eden
