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The PLEA: Curb Your Fanaticism

The PLEA: Curb Your Fanaticism

Sources and Resources

Vichy

What can happen when fanatics take over a country?

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How can we create a kinder society?

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Here's a few resources that helped inform this issue of The PLEA. Find them at your public library.

Bartley, Allan. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada. Formac Publishing, 2020.

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Edited by Jonathan Bennett. Early Modern Texts, 2017.

Clément, Dominique. “The October Crisis of 1970: Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures Act.” Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp. 160-186.

Gordon, Linda. The Second Coming of the KKK. Liveright, 2018.

Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper Perennial, 1951/2019.

Lapin, Andrew. Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story. Tablet Magazine, October/ November 2021. www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/radioactive

Pitsula, James M. Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan. UBC Press, 2013.

Schuuman, Bart and Taylor, Max. “Reconsidering Radicalization: Fanaticism and the Link Between Ideas and Violence.” Perspectives on Terrorism, February 2018, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3-22.

Toscano, Alberto. Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea. Verso, 2017.

Tull, Charles J. Father Coughlin and the New Deal. Syracuse University Press, 1965.

tolerance, openness, and, most important, a sense of humor... is the greatest enemy of fanaticism

Neil Postman, The End of Education