Because they were such big news in the ’80s, for them to be forgotten suggested that there were things about them that remain unresolved, that it wasn’t yet a comfortable story. No one I talked to under the age of 30 had any recollection of them whatsoever. From the idea to write it to sending it to press, it was about three and half years. That’s when I first heard about these trials, and took them up as an ancillary project of my own. I became interested in why the women’s movement broke down over the course of the ’80s. One of our projects was looking into the legacy of radical second-wave feminism in the U.S. We could take as much time as we wanted to investigate whatever topic we wanted to. How did you move from writing essays to writing your first book?įor a couple years, n+1 had a separate research collective. In his new book, We Believe The Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s, Beck recounts the feverish years when Reagan-era America panicked over allegations of ritualistic sexual abuse visited upon children by networks of secretly Satanist daycare workers, and analyzes the reactionary political and intellectual backdrop that kept the heat on.
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