The Lindsay Clancy trial highlights the ethical concerns of true crime in the digital era

The Lindsay Clancy case horror: When empathy becomes child sacrifice

The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]

Scapegoating women over the Lindsay Clancy trial won't solve anything

The scapegoating rage now swirling online rests on the same structures that once entrapped abused women — the very structures out of which resentment and feminist attitudes first arose.

The Lindsay Clancy trial highlights the ethical concerns of true crime in the digital era

The internet frenzy following the criminal trial of Lindsay Clancy highlights the parasocial tendencies surrounding “true crime” in the digital era, calling into question the lack of boundaries normalized in internet culture.