The Epstein files reflect justified outrage, not an overblown panic, no matter what Steve Bannon or Prince Andrew pretend.

What we are watching in Utah is not new. It’s the state-level expression of a national political theology decades in the ...

The case of Mr Wasserman confirms that the Epstein scandal has become a moral panic. No, this is not to say there was no ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are ...

Public fear, and those responsible for creating or promoting it, are major topics of discussion these days. The sociological and criminological concept known as moral panic offers valuable insights ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ron Barrett, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The day before Charlie Kirk was ...