24. Starkstein notes this is the case “given that this emotion may be analysed from the different perspectives of philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, the neurosciences, the history of emotions and lexical uses” (5–6).
25. Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., s.v. “fear, n.,” 2a.
26. Robin, 4.
27. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, vol. 1 (London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1834), 38, https://archive.org/details/worksrighthoned00burkgoog/page/n135/mode/2up.
28. Robin, 4.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., 2.
31. Tammy Bruce, The Death of Right and Wrong (New York: Crown Forum, 2004), 2–7.
32. Tammy Bruce, The New Thought Police (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), 99.
Chapter 2: Hiding Your Wrongthink
1. “Marie Curie: Facts about the Pioneering Chemist,” History, updated February 22, 2021, https://www.history.com/news/marie-curie-facts.
2. George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956).
3. Steven Blakemore, “Language and Ideology in Orwell’s 1984,” Social Theory and Practice 10, no. 3 (Fall 1984): 349–56.
4. For more extensive analysis see Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (New York: HarperCollins, 1990); Dinesh D’Souza, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (New York: Free Press, 1991); and of course the classic from Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987). All provide early warnings, perspective, and background on where our culture is today.
5. “Rosemary’s Baby,” Internet Movie Database, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/.
6. Christopher F. Rufo, “What Critical Race Theory Is Really About,” Manhattan Institute, May 6, 2021, https://manhattan.institute/article/what-critical-race-theory-is-really-about.
7. Ibid.
8. Bruce, 2001.
9. Bruce, 2003.
10. Frank Ellis, “Political Correctness and the Ideological Struggle: From Lenin and Mao to Marcuse and Foucault,” Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 409–10.
11. Ibid., 410.
12. L. D. Burnett, “‘Politically Correct’: A History (Part I),” Society for U.S. Intellectual History (blog), February 7, 2015, https://s-usih.org/2015/02/politically-correct-a-history-part-i/.
13. James L. Gibson and Joseph L. Sutherland, “Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States,” Political Science Quarterly 138, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 361–76, https://academic.oup.com/psq/article/138/3/361/7192889.
14. Editorial Board, “America Has a Free Speech Problem.”
15. Ibid.
16. Emily Ekins, “Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share,” Cato Institute, July 22, 2020, https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-they-have-political-views-theyre-afraid-share.
17. FIRE, “2024 College Free Speech Rankings,” full report, https://5666503.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5666503/CFSR%202024_final.pdf.
18. Emma Camp, “Two-Thirds of College Students Think Shouting Down a Public Speaker Can Be Acceptable,” Reason, September 6, 2023, https://reason.com/2023/09/06/two-thirds-of-college-students-think-shouting-down-a-public-speaker-can-be-acceptable/.
19. Martin Luther King Jr., “Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolence,” in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology, ed. Manning Marable and Leith Mullings (Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 377–82.
20. Mike Gonzalez, “Multiculturalism and the Fight for America’s National Identity,” Heritage Foundation, November 23, 2016, https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/multiculturalism-and-the-fight-americas-national-identity.
21. Roger Burbach, “The (Un)defining of Postmodern Marxism,” in Globalization and Postmodern Politics (London: Pluto Press, 2001), 82, 88–89.
22. Ibid.
23. Ernst Cassirer, “The Technique of the Modern Political Myths,” in The Myth of the State (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1946), 282, referenced in Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works (New York: Random House, 2018), 78.
24. Editorial Board, “The Standford Guide to Acceptable Words,” Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptable-words-elimination-of-harmful-language-initiative-11671489552.
25. Olivia Land, “Stanford Releases Guide against ‘Harmful Language’—Including the Word ‘American,’” New York Post, December 20, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/stanford-releases-guide-against-harmful-language-including-term-american/.
26. Michael Nietzel, “Stanford University Backs Away from Its Harmful Language List,” Forbes, January 8, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/01/08/stanford-university-backs-away-from-its-harmful-language-list/?sh=13634baf62df.
27. Ibid.
28. Susan D’Agostino, “Amid Backlash, Stanford Pulls ‘Harmful Language’ List,” Inside Higher Education, January 10, 2023, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/11/amid-backlash-stanford-removes-harmful-language-list.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.