During my first semester as a graduate teaching assistant, I was fired from my job at a coffee shop for mv inability to act phony. Anyway, this is what I suspected my particularly phony employer meant by a “bad attitude.” I quickly found that, despite the incredibly high taxes in Illinois, my state-university stipend was...
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Toxic Insanity
A woman files a sexual-harassment suit against a man for wearing spandex shorts. A black college student tacks racist notes on his own door to try to start a campus outcry against racism. Howard Schwartz has tried to explain these and other examples of political correctness in psychological terms in The Revolt of the Primitive. For...