When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
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Just like with Cold War-era red-baiting, there's an apparent effort to discredit and undermine critics of the US government.
Robert Eggers’ indie film The Witch brilliantly chronicles Puritan life in the 1630s. Horror soon ensues as children disappear into the woods and one girl, Thomasina, is accused of witchcraft.
