Belfast City Hall. Photo: Nicolas Raymond / Flickr. I recently read Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds. This pointed me to Charles McKay’s 1841 book of the same headline, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Somehow, this led me to Enthusiasm, first published in 1950, by Ronald A. Knox. Three different centuries. Similar issues. We encounter them today. Both Knox and McKay,…
