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17 Statistics: Hingson, “Prevention of Drinking and Driving”; Matthew Wald, “Safety Group Reports Rise in Fatalities on Highways,” New York Times, 10 October 1996, p. A17. Survey: Vest et al., “Road Rage.” Quote: Don Russell, “Get Out of the Way, Jerk,” Philadelphia Daily News (online edition), 7 August 1997. See also Sally Steenland, “Road Rage,” Philadelphia Inquirer (online edition), 7 August 1997.
18 Quote from O‘Driscoll, “In Hot Pursuit of Road Rage.”
19 Dan McGraw, “A Texas Town Heals Its Wounds,” U.S. News & World Report, 26 October 1998, pp. 24—25; Steve Lopez, “To Be Young and Gay in Wyoming,” Time, 26 October 1998, pp. 38-40.
20 Quotes from John Wilson, TheMyth of Political Correctness (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), pp. 7, 23; Brian Siano, “The Great Political Correctness Conspiracy Hoax,” Skeptic 4, no. 3 (1996): 52-61.
21 “Excerpts from President’s Speech to University of Michigan Graduates,” New York Times, 5 May 1991, p. 32. On incivility in a diverse society see Rebecca Alpert, “Coming Out of the Closet as Politically Correct,” Tikkun (March 1996): 61-63.
22 See Phil Ryan, “On Political Correctness,” Rationality and Society 8 (1996): 353-57.
23 Siano, “Conspiracy Hoax,” p. 54; Wilson, Myth of Political Correctness, pp. 20-21.
24 Alice Jardine, “Illiberal Reporting,” in C. Newfield and R. Strickland, eds., After Political Correctness (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 128—37.
25 Siano, “Conspiracy Hoax,” p. 54; Wilson, Myth of Political Correctness, pp. 20—21; Jardine, “Illiberal Reporting.”
26 Paul Craig Roberts, “Decline and Fall of the White Male,” San Francisco Examiner, 9 January 1996, p. A13.
27 Studies: “The Chilly Classroom Climate,” report by the National Association for Women in Education, 22 February 1996; Siano, “Conspiracy Hoax”; Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt, “The Research Needed to Understand Hate Crime,” Chronicle ofHigher Education 4 August 1995, p. B1; Wilson, Myth of Political Correctness, esp. pp. 43—49 and ch. 6; Verta Taylor and Nicole Raeburn, “Identity Politics as High-Risk Activism,” Social Problems 42 (1995): 252-73. See also Michael Warner, ed., Fear of a Queer Planet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993); John Davidson, “The Tenure Trap,” Working Woman (June 1997): 36-37.
28 Linda Chavez, “‘Dynamic’ Newest Banned Word,” USA Today, 10 January 1996, p. A11. Information about the incident: Courtney Leatherman, “Cal State Advertisement Spurs Debate over ‘Dynamic’ Professors,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 January 1996, p. A17; letter to the editor from Zaida Giraldo (Director of Affirmative Action at California State), Chronicle of Higher Education,16 February 1996, p. B4.
29 Debra Saunders, “Dynamic Profs Need Not Apply,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10 January 1996, p. A19; Roberts, “Decline and Fall.”
30 George Will, “Sensitivity Cops on the Trail of the ‘D’ Word,” Washington Post, 11 January 1996, p. A23; John Leo, “PC Crimes and Misdemeanors,” U.S.News & World Report, 12 February 1996, p. 18.
31 Statistics from Nexis searches conducted by the author.
32 Ellen Messer-Davidow, “Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education,” in Newfield and Strickland, eds., After Political Correctness, pp. 38-78; Wilson, Myth of Political Correctness, pp. 26-30; Siano, “Conspiracy Hoax”; Paul Pekin, “Schoolhouse Crock,” Extra, January 1998, pp. 9-10.
33 Siano, “Conspiracy Hoax.”
34 Letter from Dean Robert Lawton, USA Today, 21 March 1996, p. A10. “Dumbing down” appears in Rick Telander, “College Sports Grow in Stature as Shakespeare Takes a Hike,” Chicago Sun-Times, 22 March 1996, p. 131.
35 John Wilson, “Come Not to Bury Shakespeare,” Chronicle of Higher Education,14 February 1997, p. B6. See also Maureen Dowd, “A Winter’s Tale,” New York Times, 28 December 1995, p. A21.
36 Censorship in the schools: Annie Gowen, “Maryland Schools Remove Two Black-Authored Books,” Los Angeles Times, 11 January 1998, p. A6; see also Pekin, “Schoolhouse Crock”; Katha Pollitt, “Sweet Swan of Avon,” Nation, 4 March 1996, p.