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Extraordinary Popular Delusions

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Scottish poet and songwriter Charles MacKay (1814–1889). Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Emily Finley
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“Induce belief and blind confidence, and you may do any thing,” wrote Charles Mackay in his 1841 book, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”

Emily Finley
Emily Finley
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Emily Finley holds a PhD from The Catholic University of America. She is a Senior Fellow at The Albertus Magnus Institute and the author of The Ideology of Democratism. She writes at The Christian Imagination.
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