"Moral panic is both a public and political response to an exaggeration or distortion of the threat posed to society b…"

"Moral panics rely on an inherent paradox: that the rights of a small minority of the population wielding little insti…"

"When scholars lend credence to moral panics, they do more than misread history—they risk becoming part of it."

"Moral panics about minority religions are created by generalizing a single incident. The incident is real. It is not …"

"Moral panics are nothing new in America. "We ought to learn by our mistakes,” President Harry Truman bitterly complai…"