New at Reason: Jesse Walker on the History of the Devil

October 31, 2008

If you head to a Halloween party tonight in a devil's mask and a flowing red cape, you'll embody an array of ideas that might seem mutually exclusive: the allure of a Devil's Food Cake and the fear of the demon within. But as Managing Editor Jesse Walker writes, over the last two millennia, Satan has worn many masks. In the pluralistic postmodern era, he wears them all.

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