The lessons Helena Scheuberin’s trial can teach us
Some of you may know of Heinrich Kramer’s witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. I am forever delighted by the fact that former history major Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his 2018 piece for The Guardian referred to that text in his defense of NFL cheerleader Bailey Davis. If you know, you know. Kramer’s volume became hugely…