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Cullen Murphy

Cullen Murphy is editor at large of Vanity Fair magazine. His latest book is God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (Penguin).

Articles by Cullen Murphy

Inside the heresy files

Interrogation. Surveillance. Ethnic profiling. Censorship. The words come from 21st-century headlines, but they have an ancient pedigree. Cullen Murphy on how the Inquisition ignited the modern police state

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