CalMatters Commentary: California's 21st century witch hunts
CalMatters Commentary: California’s 21st century witch hunts Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary © Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, smile as they prepare for a speech in San Francisco in 2016. Nearly 70 years ago, Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible,” a play ostensibly about the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which about 25 people, mostly women, were accused of consorting with the devil and suffered horrible deaths. There’s no doubt, however, that Miller’s play was an allegorical denunciation of persecuti...