With the cartoonist’s new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the “light, fun” book she’s longed to write.

Caught in the maw of vague laws, government overreach, and moral panic, art museums have become the latest battleground in an escalating assault on cultural institutions. A quarter-century later ...

In August 1981, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an essay for Food & Wine called "An Englishman's Toast to the Glories of Gin." Obviously, some information about the availability and quality ...

Media-invented moral panics are nothing new. What sets apart the modern-day Nazi moral panic, however, is that it has achieved “evergreen” status. It can be easily dusted off and deployed on a ...

That’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It just happened to me with the phrase “moral panic.” A moral panic is a mass movement based on a false or exaggerated perception that something ...

This is a phenomenon known as moral panic; new media or technology touches off an extreme fear reaction by older generations, including policymakers. These past panics can seem self-evidently silly.

Satanic panic has long since receded into the back of the average American’s mind with people often forgetting that dozens of people faced actual criminal charges in what is mostly regarded as ...

We are living in the age of moral panic. We look around, we see a problem, and we rush to outlaw something. Ban TikTok! cry members of Congress. Ban social media for kids! says the state of Florida.

It’s been just over 50 years since the South African scholar Stanley Cohen wrote his famous work, Folk Devils and Moral Panics. He concentrated on violent youth subculture and defined a moral panic as ...

We are living in the age of moral panic. We look around, we see a problem, and we rush to outlaw something. Ban TikTok! cry members of Congress. Ban social media for kids! says the state of Florida.