6. Andrew Mark Miller, “Professor Blasted after Calling for ‘Amnesty’ to Forgive Coronavirus Lockdown Supporters: ‘Hell No,’” Fox News, November 5, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/us/professor-blasted-after-calling-for-amnesty-to-forgive-coronavirus-lockdown-supporters-hell-no.
7. William Claiborne, “Witnesses Allege Abuse by Simpson,” Washington Post, January 12, 1995, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/01/12/witnesses-allege-abuse-by-simpson/706c89c6-9f5f-4ef2-8d47-bbed4d7ce296/.
8. Michale Brendan Dougherty, “Anthony Fauci: I Am the Science,” National Review, November 29, 2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/anthony-fauci-i-am-the-science/.
9. Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD, “The Mind Control Tactics of Domestic Abusers: Abusers Control Their Partners by Making Them Feel Disoriented and Afraid,” Psychology Today, May 27, 2021, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invisible-chains/202105/the-mind-control-tactics-domestic-abusers.
10. Alexandra Steigrad, “Fox News Reporter Trey Yingst Visibly Shaken as He Shares Gruesome Details of Hamas Terrorist’s Israel Massacre Confession,” New York Post, October 23, 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/10/23/media/fox-news-war-reporter-limits-grisly-details-of-hamas-terrorists-confession-about-israel-massacre/.
11. Nomi Kaltmann and Gabe Friedman, “Sydney Government Apologizes for Pro-Palestine Protest That Had ‘Gas the Jews’ Chants,” Times of Israel, October 13, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/sydney-government-apologizes-for-pro-palestine-protest-that-had-gas-the-jews-chants/.
12. David Marcus, “Pro-Hamas Protests Force Jewish Students to Hide. How Can America Let This Happen Again?” Fox News, October 27, 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pro-hamas-protests-force-jewish-students-hide-america-happen.
13. Aaron Bandler, “‘Everyone Was Screaming’: Tulane Jewish Students Assaulted at Pro-Palestinian Rally,” Jewish Journal, October 26, 2023, https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/364469/everyone-was-screaming-tulane-jewish-students-assaulted-at-pro-palestinian-rally/.
14. Jerusalem Post Staff, “Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Batter Pro-Israel Activist Helping Old Man in Skokie,” Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-769934.
15. Noah Rothman, “The Insane Logic of ‘Whiteness,’” Commentary, January 18, 2021, https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/the-insane-logic-of-whiteness/.
16. Dave Huber, “Critical Race Theory, ‘Whiteness’ Reach New Absurd and Inane Heights,” College Fix, March 18, 2021, https://www.thecollegefix.com/critical-race-theory-whiteness-reach-new-absurd-inane-heights/.
17. Mark Moore, “Traditional Values like Patriotism, Religion and Community Have Plunged Dramatically among Americans: Poll,” New York Post, March 27, 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/values-like-patriotism-religion-falling-out-of-favor-among-americans-poll/.
18. Editorial Board, “America Has a Free Speech Problem,” New York Times, March 18, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html.
19. Emily Ekins, “Most Americans Are Scared Stiff to Talk Politics. Why?” Cato Institute, August 6, 2020, https://www.cato.org/commentary/most-americans-are-scared-stiff-talk-politics-why.
20. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” (speech), August 28, 1963, in “Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech in Its Entirety,” NPR, January 16, 2023, https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety.
21. C. S. Lewis, “On Living in an Atomic Age,” in Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays, ed. Walter Hooper (New York: HarperOne, 2017), 69–75, Kindle.
Chapter 1: The Terrible, Obscure Bioweapon
1. Edmund Burke, “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful,” British Literature, 1640–1780: An Anthology, 4th ed., ed. Robert DeMaria (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016), 998–1002.
2. “President Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address” (speech), March 4, 1933, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/character/links/roosevelt_speech.html.
3. Evita Duffy-Alfonso, “Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Think Corporate Wokeness Has Gone Too Far,” Federalist, March 5, 2021, https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/05/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-think-corporate-wokeness-has-gone-too-far/.
4. Thomas B. Edsall, “Is Wokeness ‘Kryptonite for Democrats’?” New York Times, May 26, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opinion/democrats-republicans-wokeness-cancel-culture.html.
5. Chris Cillizza, “Why ‘Wokeness’ Is the Biggest Threat to Democrats in the 2022 Election,” CNN, July 12, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/woke-green-new-deal-defund-the-police/index.html.
6. Alexandra Pollard, “Gaslight: How a Harrowing Ingrid Bergman Film Inspired 2022’s Word of the Year,” Independent, November 29, 2022, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/gaslighting-ingrid-bergman-film-merriam-webster-b2235486.html.
7. The 1944 film is a remake of a 1940 version, which was an adaptation of a 1938 play. For a discussion about the films, their genesis, and other details, including the 1944 version being the film debut of an eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury, see: J. Hoberman, “Why ‘Gaslight’ Hasn’t Lost Its Glow,” New York Times, August 21, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/gaslight-movie-afterlife.html.
8. Rikki Schlott, “Five Professors Tell Why They Were Canceled, and Why They Fought Back,” New York Post, April 30, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/professors-on-how-they-were-canceled-why-they-fought-back/.
9. Grégoire Sauvage, “How Black Lives Matter Put Slave Reparations Back on the Agenda,” France 24, April 18, 2021, https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210418-how-black-lives-matter-put-slave-reparations-back-on-the-agenda.
10. Susan Ellingwood, “What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is Everyone Talking about It?” Columbia News, July 1, 2021, https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-critical-race-theory-and-why-everyone-talking-about-it-0.
11. Christopher F. Rufo, “Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It,” Imprimis 50, no. 3 (March 2021), https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/.
12. Gerald F. Seib, “In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2008, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122721278056345271.
13. Maia Szalavitz, “How Terror Hijacks the Brain,” Time, April 16, 2013, https://healthland.time.com/2013/04/16/how-terror-hijacks-the-brain/.
14. Joseph E. LeDoux, “Coming to Terms with Fear,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 8 (February 2014): 2871–78, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400335111.
15. Szalavitz.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Corey Robin, Fear: The History of a Political Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Sergio Starkstein, A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
19. Raymond Taras, Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy: Europe and Beyond (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), 5.
20. John P. McCormick, “Machiavelli’s The Prince at 500: The Fate of Politics in the Modern World,” Social Research 81, no. 1 (Spring 2014): xxiv.
21. Starkstein, 126.
22. Taras, 5.
23. Starkstein, 130–31.