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America's True Believers and Their Gutless Enablers
A young woman accused of witchcraft in Salem Village, Massachusetts, tries to defend herself in front of Puritan ministers. (MPI/Getty Images)
Don’t blame the children of Park Slope and Echo Park for the nonsense. Blame those adults with the power to stop it.
By Peter Savodnik
04.02.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Peter Savodnik is one of my favorite essayists working today. He writes for Vanity Fair and has had bylines in every other prestigious magazine you used to read religiously. I’d noticed his name over the years, but when I read this essay, in which he explained how Woke America is like a Russian novel, I was blown away, as I hope you’ll be by Peter’s bli…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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