There is something preposterous about Cullen Murphy’s journey through the history of the Inquisition. He analyzes it as if it were the root of all institutional evil in the modern world. Really.
For years the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and currently editor-at-large of Vanity Fair, Murphy writes as an overzealous journalist eager to prove to the naive reader that everything around us is connected. And while he has an enviable freedom that refuses to be imprisoned by strict academic disciplines, he comes across as a glutton for connections who is unable to differentiate even the most essential of flavors.
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