This is my last book review column of the year — while some of them were disappointing, most of them were quite good — and, shockingly, two of the works of theory covered within are actually uplifting to read.
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But we can see an interesting trend: as the number of epidemics tails off, so – generally – do the number of major moral panics. We have the red scare, sure, and prohibition and the devil’s music, and filthy literature – but, generally speaking as the number of epidemics tapers off, the moral panics become fewer and slightly more grounded.
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