Judge Dredd And The Art Of Moral Panic

Reading 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future' by Michael Molcher

Effective violence always resembles authoritarianism because authoritarianism fetishizes effective violence. From Karl Popper to the present, leftist academia has consistently inverted this relationship. Postmodernism has perfected this framing

Of all the comics I read as a child of the 1980s, the one that stands out today as the most prescient is Judge …