31. Nietze, “Stanford University Backs Away.”
32. Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang, “Words and Phrases You May Want to Think Twice about Using,” CBC News, November 29, 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274.
33. Snopes Staff and Barbara Mikkelson, “Did the Word ‘Picnic’ Originate with Lynchings?” Snopes, January 21, 2001, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/.
34. “Fact Check: The Word Picnic Does Not Originate from Racist Lynchings,” Reuters, July 13, 2020, https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-picnic-origin-lynchings-idUSKCN24E21V/.
35. Robin J. Ely, Debra Meyerson, and Martin N. Davidson, “Rethinking Political Correctness,” Harvard Business Review, September 2006, https://hbr.org/2006/09/rethinking-political-correctness.
36. Gabriel S. Mendlow, “Why Is It Wrong to Punish Thought?” Yale Law Journal 127, no. 8 (June 2018): 2342.
37. Lucas Swaine, “Freedom of Thought as a Basic Liberty,” Political Theory 46, no. 3 (June 2018): 407.
38. C. G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual in Modern Society (New York: New American Library, 2006), 12.
Chapter 3: The Fear Industrial Complex
1. Winston S. Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347.
2. Greg Piper, “Treasury Department Tacitly Endorses Debanking Opponents of Transgender Hormones for Kids,” Just the News, March 14, 2024, https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/treasury-tacitly-endorses-debanking-opponents-transgender-hormones-kids.
3. John Hayward, “Hillary Clinton: You’re Not Just ‘Deplorable,’ but ‘Irredeemable’ and Not Part of America,” Breitbart News, September 13, 2016, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/09/13/irredeemable-clinton-deplorable/.
4. Jon Miltimore and Dan Sanchez, “The New York Times Reported ‘the Mainstreaming of Marxism in US Colleges’ 30 Years Ago. Today, We See the Results,” Foundation for Economic Education, September 10, 2020, https://fee.org/articles/the-new-york-times-reported-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges-30-years-ago-today-we-see-the-results/.
5. Ibid.
6. Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “envy, n.,” 1a and 3a. Accessed March 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/2928468204.
7. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 124.
8. Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy (Manchester, NH: Crisis, 2020), 6–7.
9. Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Ch. 10, Sec. 1, in Greek & Roman Materials, from Perseus Digital Library, ed. Gregory R. Crane, https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0060%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D10.
10. Hendershott, 12.
11. Joseph Epstein, Envy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 7.
12. Ibid., 15.
13. Proverbs 14:30 (New American Standard Bible).
14. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Fear (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2006).
15. Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 318.
16. Ibid., 319.
17. Dr. Rachael Sharman, “Paralysed with Fear: Why Do We Freeze When Frightened?” The Conversation, June 13, 2016, https://theconversation.com/paralysed-with-fear-why-do-we-freeze-when-frightened-60543.
18. Thierry Steimer, PhD, “The Biology of Fear- and Anxiety-Related Behaviors,” Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 4, no. 3 (September 2002): 231–49, National Library of Medicine, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181681/.
19. Nicola Davis, “Antarctica Was Warm Enough for Rainforest Near South Pole 90M Years Ago,” Guardian, April 1, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/antarctic.
20. Patrick Pester and Kim Ann Zimmerman, “Pleistocene Epoch: The Last Ice Age,” LiveScience, February 28, 2022, https://www.livescience.com/40311-pleistocene-epoch.html.
21. “Nostradamus,” History Channel, updated May 14, 2020, https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/nostradamus.
22. John Bowden, “Ocasio-Cortez: ‘World Will End in 12 Years’ If Climate Change Not Addressed,” Hill, January 22, 2019, https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address/.
23. Lukas Mikelionis, “AOC Says Only a ‘Sea Sponge’ Would Believe Her ‘12 Years’ Doomsday Remark, but Most Dems Bought It,” Fox News, May 23, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-doomsday-claim-world-end-poll-shows-67-percent-of-dems.
24. Ibid.
25. de Becker, The Gift of Fear, 326.
26. Frank Furedi, How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019), 25.
27. Ibid.
28. Bauman, 1.
Chapter 4: Indoctrination Centers
1. President Ronald Reagan, “Remarks to the National Catholic Education Association in Chicago, Illinois,” April 15, 1982, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/reagan-quotes-speeches/remarks-to-the-national-catholic-educational-association/.
2. Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, “Parents Claim They Have the Right to Shape Their Kids’ School Curriculum. They Don’t,” Washington Post, October 21, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/parents-rights-protests-kids/2021/10/21/5cf4920a-31d4-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html.