We No Longer Burn Witches

But the Salem Witch Trials Are Back — This Time in University Human Rights Departments

In high school, many of us read The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s dramatization of the Salem witch trials: a warning about hysteria masquerading as justice. We read it from a comfortable distance, almost smugly, as though it described some extinct moral species—the fruit of an ancient and diseased tree that modernity had long since cut down.

We looked at the…