Cullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, The Word According to Eve, and the essay collection Just Curious. C. E. lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826-the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its s... SEE MORE