There is a comforting myth we like to tell ourselves in the civilized world: Once a society has universal suffrage, some civil rights, a gender-studies department, and a rainbow crosswalk, the job is done. History, we imagine, has finally set like Jell-O in a democracy-shaped mold.It has not. It never does.Societies rarely fall into fanaticism with a single crash. They slide there, inch by inch, while telling themselves moving stories about compassion, diversity, and open-mindedness. The

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