Arthur Miller's Eerie Prediction Of Where We Now Find Ourselves

As vital as ever -- a new collection reaffirms the might of Arthur Miller: ""The Crucible," which treats the Salem witch trials as an analogy for the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era, is, as Miller wrote in the Viking introduction, more about the 'mystery' of how a 'campaign from the far Right was capable of creating not only a terror, but a new subjective reality, a veritable mystique which was gradually assuming even a holy resonance. ... It was as though the whole country had been born anew, without a memory even of certain elemental decencies that a year or two earlier no one would have imagined could be altered, let alone forgotten.' "

Astonishing description of the beginnings of the McCarthy era uncannily and precisely describes our own moment in history.