Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1960 Rod Serling's Twilight Zone aired the landmark episode, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street." It distilled the paranoia of the Cold War into a simple suburban story. When the power goes out on an ordinary American block, the neighbors slowly convince themselves that one of them must be an alien infiltrator. Suspicion spreads, rumors pile up, and within a few hours the friendly neighborhood collapses into accusations, mob behavior, and violence. What made the episode historically...