In 1955, popular talk show host Steve Allen wrote a chilling short story. Set in the faraway future of the late 1970s, the story begins in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where some 70,000 spectators munch on hot dogs and down cold beers as they eagerly await the afternoon's main event.
But this is no World Series game for which the crowds have assembled. In Allen's dystopian future, they are there to join in a "public hating." Drawing on the depths of their collective hatred, the mob directs such powerful mass hostility and rage at a political prisoner that the unlucky victim actually suffers physical pain, writhing and convulsing to the point of death.
More than 100 faculty members at the Ivy League school have called on the president of the college to retract his statement criticizing a visiting scholar at Dartmouth for defending violence from the left-wing group Antifa. He is refusing.
