A secret never to be told
Secrecy
Silence, Power, and Religion
Hugh B Urban
University of Chicago 2021
Pb, 264pp, £24, ISBN 9780226746647
“Top Secret” – possibly the most intriguing and, at the same time, most disconcerting two-word phrase in the English language.
Whether applied to secret rites of Freemasons or appearing on a sign at the entrance to the infamous Area 51, the words are forbidding and fascinating in equal parts.
Secrecy is used as a weapon of state control. The more authoritarian a regime, the more brutal and shadowy are the
