Harry Potter should be glad he practices his wizarding in the modern world. European sorcerers had a much less pleasant time of things in 1486, when the Malleus Maleficarum – “The Hammer of Witches” – was first published.
The Boston Globe reviewed Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower yesterday. Norwood’s book is an extensively researched indictment of American Universities’ cooperation with Nazis in the buildup to World War II.