Letters and Politics

ISIS and the History of Political Paranoia

Lena Khatib of the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Center in Beirut on ISIS tactics. Adam Zamoysky, author of Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 on how governments use occult threats to justify repression. About the book: The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and … Continued