Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, RICHARD BECK, author of "We Believe the Children: a Moral Panic in the 1980s "(Public Affairs, 2015) and a senior writer at N+1, spoke to New Models about social contagion—from the wild, child abuse allegations of Q and the satanic panics of recent history to the witch trials and blood libels of times before. Deepening the conversation is Richard’s current work on the War on Terror and its remaking of the American worldview.

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Richard’s next book, "Fear Itself" is forthcoming from Crown

https://nplusonemag.com/authors/beck-richard/

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/richard-beck/we-believe-the-children/9781610392877/

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