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"The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford (Nov 1963) - Hofstadter, Richard | WIST Quotations
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. Whereas the anti-Masons had envisaged drinking bouts and had entertained themselves with sado-masochistic fantasies about the actual enforcement of grisly Masonic oaths, the anti-Catholics invented an immense lore about libertine priests, the confessional as an opportunity for seduction, licentious convents and…