I study moral panics. The Epstein files are not one.

The Epstein files reflect justified outrage, not an overblown panic, no matter what Steve Bannon or Prince Andrew pretend.
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Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence

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 ...
Forbes

Is Security Breach Moral Panic Re-Building In The UK?

American actress Vera Miles stars as Lila Crane in the horror classic 'Psycho', directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) Between 2006 and 2009 a Moral Panic situation ...
Psychology Today

A Brief History of Moral Panics About Kids and Media

Whenever a new technology comes along that creates a revolutionarily new means of communication, the young glom onto it and their elders, or a highly vocal group of them, believe it is leading to the ...
SFGate

Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence

(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 ...
Times Union

Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence

(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 ...