Moral panics

Moral panic as an election strategy

Ben November 5, 2018

In theory, democratic contests are supposed to be about ideas. Candidates engage in debate about...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney