The Great Political Correctness Panic, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police

by Brian Siano A shorter version of this article appeared in Skeptic magazine, Vol 4, No. 3., 1996 Introduction Charles McCay did not make an idle choice, in titling his classic study, by explicitly mentioning “popular delusions” and “the madness of crowds.” Panics and hysterias are always associated with screaming,… Continue reading

The Philadelphia Public Record: WordPress consultation

Around 2010 or so, Anthony West, editor of the Philadelphia Public Record,  asked me to suggest revisions to the newspaper’s website. At the time, the paper maintained two websites. One contained an archive of older issues in the “Issuu” format (a way of displaying PDFs as an animated newspaper), and… Continue reading