Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

October 20, 2014

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Ebola
	Lessons from the 1892 Cholera Scare Hysteria over a handful of cases? Check. Scapegoating of immigrants and public health officials? Check. By Howard Markel

Religion
	Hey, Bill Maher: There Is No Such Thing as “Islamic Extremism.” There’s simply extremism, which some Muslims have embraced. By Nathan Lean

No Author Is Too Good for Her Amazon Critics Show me a writer who hasn’t felt savaged, misunderstood, unfairly attacked, or completely misread by an Amazon reviewer, and I’ll show you a writer whose books live in shoeboxes under her bed. By Jennifer Weiner Obama's Former Muslim Advisor Assesses Whether He's Lived Up to His Cairo Speech Obama came into office promising to improve relations with the Muslim world. It didn't go exactly as planned. By Jessica Schulberg Fear of Ebola Could Make People More Likely to Vote Conservative A growing body of literature suggests that fear make people’s political outlook more conservative. By Alice Robb