In the 19th century, doctors explained that slaves ran away from their masters because of “drapetomania,” a completely irrational and uncaused urge to rebel. In the fifties, one psychiatrist said that any woman who worked outside the home was sexually frustrated and probably a lesbian. In 2004, several right-wing pundits, including John Podhoretz and Charles Krauthammer, announced that Al Gore was, literally, clinically insane (Krauthammer, who served as a psychiatric resident after graduatin

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