One of my favorite posts on such matters is Ortberg’s listicle “ Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would

One of my favorite posts on such matters is Ortberg’s listicle “ Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would Have In Fact Been Among The Witch-Burners”: I would have named names, too. And I’d have been especially good at intuiting what names my interrogators wanted to hear (they would not have to torture or even threaten to torture me) – sharp-tongued gossips and independent-minded widows and all kinds of people who get described as “unruly” in modern academic essays. Throw them under the god damn Witch Bus. Does it disappoint you to hear this? I never asked you to have faith in me, Goody Watson. http://the-toast.net/2016/02/09/reasons-i-would-not-have-been-burned-as-a-witch/ http://the-toast.net/2016/02/09/reasons-i-would-not-have-bee...