Panic Attack

by Robby Soave

  30.   “Genders, Rights and Freedom of Speech,” YouTube, posted by The Agenda with Steve Paikin, October 26, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasiov0ytEc.

  31.   Bradford Richardson, “University of Toronto Historian: Biological Sex a ‘Very Popular Misconception,’” Washington Times, December 2, 2016, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/2/university-historian-biological-sex-misconception.

  32.   Rebecca Joseph and Mike Drolet, “Laurier University Accused of Censorship After TA Reprimanded for Playing Gender Pronoun Debate Clip,” Global News, last updated November 20, 2017, https://globalnews.ca/news/3868080/laurier-accused-of-censorship-after-ta-reprimanded-for-playing-gender-pronoun-debate-clip.

  33.   WLU Rainbow Centre, “Dear Laurier Community,” Facebook, November 21, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/WLURainbowCentre/posts/1628430573891091.

  34.   Maggie Astor, “Violence Against Transgender People Is on the Rise, Advocates Say,” New York Times, November 9, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/transgender-women-killed.html.

  35.   A. Williams, “Risk Factors for Suicide in the Transgender Community,” European Psychiatry 41 supp. (April 2017): S894, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933817318357.

  36.   Megan Gannon, “Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue,” Scientific American, February 5, 2016, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue.

  37.   Jesse Singal, “This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like,” New York Magazine, May 2, 2017, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html.

  38.   Kelly Oliver, “If This Is Feminism…,” Philosophical Salon, May 8, 2017, http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/if-this-is-feminism-its-been-hijacked-by-the-thought-police.

  39.   Justin Weinberg, “Philosopher’s Article on Transracialism Sparks Controversy,” Daily Nous, May 1, 2017, http://dailynous.com/2017/05/01/philosophers-article-transracialism-sparks-controversy.

  40.   Helen Griffiths, “Amid Controversy, ‘Stonewall’ Screening Postponed,” Catalyst, October 25, 2015, http://catalystnewspaper.com/news/amid-controversy-stonewall-screening-postponed.

  41.   Arana, “White Gay Men Are Hindering Our Progress.”

  42.   Decca Aitkenhead, “RuPaul: ‘Drag Is a Big F—You to Male-Dominated Culture,” Guardian, March 3, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/03/rupaul-drag-race-big-f-you-to-male-dominated-culture; Caroline Framke, “How RuPaul’s Comments on Trans Women Led to a Drag Race Revolt—and a Rare Apology,” Vox, March 7, 2018, https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/6/17085244/rupaul-trans-women-drag-queens-interview-controversy.

  43.   “RuPaul Accepts an Award for RuPaul’s Drag Race at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles,” YouTube, posted by GLAAD, April 21, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmiOH-B8Yw.

  44.   Lauren Herold, “How RuPaul Became a Leading Icon in the Gay Community,” Mic, May 29, 2013, https://mic.com/articles/44947/how-rupaul-became-a-leading-icon-in-the-gay-community.

  45.   E. Alex Jung, “Real Talk with RuPaul,” Vulture, March 2016, http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/rupaul-drag-race-interview.html.

  SIX: BERNIE WOULDA WON

    1.   John Haltiwanger, “This Is the Platform That Launched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-Year-Old Democratic Socialist, to Become the Youngest Woman Ever Elected to Congress,” Business Insider, November 6, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6.

    2.   “Watch: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ada Colau Interviewed by Amy Goodman,” Democracy Now!, July 16, 2018, https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_alexandria_ocasio_cortez_ada_colau.

    3.   Gary Zabel, “Safe Space Socialism,” Dig Boston, November 16, 2017, https://digboston.com/safe-space-socialism.

    4.   Jacqueline Thomsen, “Ocasio-Cortez Defends Banning Press from Event: We Wanted ‘Residents to Feel Safe,’” The Hill, August 18, 2018, http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/402451-ocasio-cortez-defends-banning-press-from-event-we-wanted-residents-to-feel.

    5.   Anna Heyward, “Since Trump’s Victory, Democratic Socialists of America Has Become a Budding Political Force,” The Nation, December 21, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/in-the-year-since-trumps-victory-democratic-socialists-of-america-has-become-a-budding-political-force.

    6.   “Uniting to Build a Socialist Feminist Movement,” Democratic Left, May 2, 2017, https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/2017/05/02/uniting_to_build_a_socialist_feminist_movement_dl.

    7.   Nice! (@TheCathBoo), “Those ‘extremely pro-abortion’ women still don’t think ‘abortion is good’ while they’re getting one. Only Lena Dunham thinks that way,” Twitter, December 10, 2017, 4:02 p.m., https://twitter.com/AntifaEzraPound/status/940008837813121024.

    8.   Scott Alexander, “Book Review: Singer on Marx,” Slate Star Codex, September 13, 2014, http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/13/book-review-singer-on-marx.

    9.   “Critical Theory,” Berkeley Academic Guide 2018–19, UC Berkeley, http://guide.berkeley.edu/graduate/schools-departments-graduate-groups/critical-theory.

  10.   “Graduate Program: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (Minor),” University of Arizona, last revised November 1, 2016, https://grad.arizona.edu/catalog/programinfo/SCCTMING.

  11.   “Critical Theory in the Global South,” Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University, http://www.criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-project/critical-theory-in-the-global-south.

  12.   “About UCI Critical Theory,” School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/about/about.php; “Critical Theory,” Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, http://www.complit.buffalo.edu/graduate/critical-theory.

  13.   Tom Bemis, “Karl Marx Is the Most Assigned Economist in U.S. College Classes,” Marketwatch, January 31, 2016, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/communist-manifesto-among-top-three-books-assigned-in-college-2016-01-27.

  14.   Phillip W. Magness, “Commie Chic and Quantifying Marx on the Syllabus,” PhilMagness.com, August 15, 2016, http://philmagness.com/?p=1804.

  15.   Bryan Caplan, “The Prevalence of Marxism in Academia,” Library of Economics and Liberty, March 31, 2015, http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1.html.

  16.   Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, “The Social and Political Views of American Professors,” working paper, September 24, 2007, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.147.6141&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

  17.   Tom Hayden and Dick Flacks, “The Port Huron Statement at 40,” The Nation, July 18, 2002, https://www.thenation.com/article/port-huron-statement-40.

  18.   Herbert Mitgang, “Michael Harrington, Socialist and Author, Is Dead,” New York Times, August 2, 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/02/obituaries/michael-harrington-socialist-and-author-is-dead.html.

  19.   Ezra Klein, “Bernie Sanders: The Vox Conversation,” Vox, July 28, 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9014491/bernie-sanders-vox-conversation.

  20.   Steven Perlberg, “How ‘Abolish ICE’ Went from Twitter Slogan to Winning Over Progressives and Dividing Politics,” BuzzFeed, July 28, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/abolish-ice-sean-mcelwee.

  21.   Catherine Rampell, “Millennials Have a Higher Opinion of Socialism Than of Capitalism,” Washington Post, February 5, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/02/05/millennials-have-a-higher-opinion-of-socialism-than-of-capitalism.

  22.   “Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education, https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service#qualifying-employment.

  23.   David O. Lucca,
Taylor Nadauld, and Karen Shen, “Credit Supply and the Rise in College Tuition: Evidence from the Expansion in Federal Student Aid Programs,” Staff Report No. 733, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2015, revised February 2017, https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff_reports/sr733.pdf.

  24.   Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund, “Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition,” National Bureau of Economic Research, November 13, 2017, http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf.

  25.   Richard Vedder and Justin Strehle, “The Diminishing Returns of a College Degree,” Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-diminishing-returns-of-a-college-degree-1496605241.

  26.   Simone Pathe, “These College Majors Will Get You a Well-Paying Job,” PBS NewsHour, February 25, 2015, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/college-majors-will-get-well-paying-job.

  27.   M [hammer/sickle] for the People (@AudaciousBeat), “I’m a trans woman. I #ResistCapitalism because private property and capital are the basis of my exploitation and my oppression,” Twitter, February 25, 2017, 12:21 p.m., https://twitter.com/AudaciousBeat/status/835585655371612161.

  28.   Lamont Lilly (@LamontLilly), “‘True revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.’—Che Guevara,” Twitter, January 3, 2018, 2:59 p.m., https://twitter.com/LamontLilly/status/948690214662352896.

  29.   “Che Guevara,” Wikiquote, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Che_Guevara.

  30.   Lamont Lilly, “Lamont Lilly to Peace and Freedom Party: ‘True Socialism Must Connect to the Most Marginalized,’” Workers World, August 26, 2016, https://www.workers.org/2016/08/26/lamont-lilly-to-peace-and-freedom-party-true-socialism-must-connect-to-the-most-marginalized.

  31.   Marwa Eltagouri, Professor Who Tweeted, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is White Genocide,’ Resigns After Year of Threats,” Washington Post, December 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/12/29/professor-who-tweeted-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-white-genocide-resigns-after-year-of-threats/?utm_term=.3401f677dc13.

  32.   wint (@dril), “‘im not owned! im not owned!!’, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob,” Twitter, November 10, 2011, 4:20 p.m., https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561.

  33.   Christopher Muther, “The Airlines Call It Basic Economy. Misery Class Is More Accurate,” Boston Globe, February 23, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2017/02/23/the-airlines-call-basic-economy-misery-class-more-accurate/bS6Xt2wy9oDFk5Xw7IrUEM/story.html.

  34.   Annie Lowrey, “Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ Is Suddenly Everywhere,” Atlantic, May 1, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-capitalism/524943.

  35.   Oscar Rickett, “Stop Pretending These Leaders Are Woke Baes,” Vice, August 9, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/a3e55j/stop-pretending-these-global-leaders-are-woke-baes.

  36.   Robert Pear, Rebecca R. Ruiz, and Laurie Goodstein, “Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate,” New York Times, October 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/us/politics/trump-contraception-birth-control.html.

  37.   Jimmy Vielkind, “Socialists Divided over Cynthia Nixon,” Politico, July 12, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/cynthia-nixon-democratic-socialist-715382.

  SEVEN: THE OTHERS

    1.   David Roberts, “The 5 Most Important Questions About Carbon Taxes, Answered,” Vox, last updated October 18, 2018, https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/20/17584376/carbon-tax-congress-republicans-cost-economy.

    2.   Bobby Magill, “Americans Used a Lot Les Coal in 2016,” Scientific American, April 8, 2017, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americans-used-a-lot-less-coal-in-2016.

    3.   Ronald Bailey, “Global Tree Cover Has Expanded More Than 7 Percent Since 1982,” Reason, September 4, 2018, https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/04/global-tree-cover-has-expanded-more-than.

    4.   Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker, “Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement,” Boston Globe, November 23, 2015, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/23/inconvenient-truths-for-environmental-movement/esDloe97894keW16Ywa9MP/story.html.

    5.   “Towards a Red and Green Future? Marxism, Critical Theory, and Environmental Philosophy,” Undergraduate Education, Michigan State University, April 16, 2016, http://undergrad.msu.edu/events/view/id/122.

    6.   Jonathan Stein, “Ron Paul—It’s Real, Get Over It,” Mother Jones, November 1, 2007, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/11/ron-paul-its-real-get-over-it/2.

    7.   Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, “The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007–2009,” Mobilization: An International Journal 16, no. 1 (2011): 45–64, http://www-personal.umich.edu/∼mheaney/Partisan_Dynamics_of_Contention.pdf.

    8.   Phillip Valys, “Who Is Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School?” Sun-Sentinel, February 17, 2018, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-fea-stoneman-douglas-shooting-profile-school-pride-20180217-story.html.

    9.   Ed Morales, “Emma González: La Nueva Cara of Florida Latinx,” Washington Post, March 1, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/01/emma-gonzalez-la-nueva-cara-of-florida-latinx.

  10.   Allie Nicodemo and Lia Petronio, “Schools Are Safer Than They Were in the 90s, and School Shootings Are Not More Common Than They Used to Be, Researchers Say,” News@Northeastern, Northeastern University, February 26, 2018, https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says.

  11.   Eric Levitz, “There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings,’” New York Magazine, March 1, 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/there-is-no-epidemic-of-mass-school-shootings.html.

  12.   Mike Dunham, “Let’s Not Underestimate Our Handgun Problem in the Assault Weapons Debate,” Medium, March 14, 2018, https://medium.com/s/story/a-follow-up-on-parkland-why-focusing-on-assault-weapons-over-handguns-will-squander-the-chance-to-590ac6c75161.

  13.   Ian Johnston, “Suicide Rates Boosted by Easy Access to Guns, Researchers Say,” Independent, August 18, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/suicide-rates-maryland-rural-urban-firearms-guns-johns-hopkins-united-states-a7898951.html.

  14.   Lorraine Adams and Dale Russakoff, “Dissecting Columbine’s Cult of the Athlete,” Washington Post, June 12, 1999, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/june99/columbine12.htm.

  15.   Dave Cullen, “The Depressive and the Psychopath,” Slate, April 20, 2004, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/04/at-last-we-know-why-the-columbine-killers-did-it.html.

  16.   David Brooks, “The Columbine Killers,” New York Times, April 24, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/opinion/the-columbine-killers.html.

  17.   Jessica Chasmar, “Pop-Tart Gun Suspension Upheld by Maryland Judge,” Washington Times, June 17, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/17/pop-tart-gun-suspension-upheld-by-maryland-judge.

  18.   Robby Soave, “School Suspends 5-Year-Old Girl for Holding Stick That Looked Like Gun,” Reason, March 30, 2017, http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/30/school-suspends-5-year-old-girl-for-hold.

  19.   Tom Koch, “Fourth Grader Suspended for Bringing His ‘One Ring’ to School,” Eyewitness News, Los Angeles, February 3, 2015, http://abc7.com/news/boy-suspended-for-bringing-his-one-ring-to-school/502381.

  20.   Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald), “This is a bizarre and incredibly disingenuous statement from @Twitter,” Twitter, July 27, 2018, 5:42 a.m., https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1022824465623859200.

  21.   Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans,” Twitter, July 26, 2018, 4:46 a.m., https://tw
itter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1022447980408983552.

  22.   “Cara Daggett,” Professor Watchlist, July 10, 2018, https://www.professorwatchlist.org/2018/07/10/cara-daggett.

  23.   James Hohmann, “The Daily 202: Koch Network Warns of ‘McCarthyism 2.0’ in Conservative Efforts to Harass Professors,” Washington Post, August 1, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/08/01/daily-202-koch-network-warns-of-mccarthyism-2-0-in-conservative-efforts-to-harass-professors/5b611a871b326b0207955e90.

  24.   Michael Vasquez, “Leaked Memo from Conservative Group Cautions Students to Stay Away from Turning Point USA,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 15, 2018, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Leaked-Memo-From-Conservative/243688.