Reading The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters | Alexandria
Read The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe. Wielding satire as a weapon, this icon of irony exposed religious persecution through a masterful literary trap - advocating genocide so extreme it forced readers to confront their own bigotry. Defoe's shocking pamphlet pioneered meta-commentary centuries before postmodernism, showing how dark humor could spark social change.