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The absurdity of past panics should serve as a reminder that widespread acceptance of a scapegoat does not mean that it is actually responsible. The youth mental health crisis deserves a careful response, not another hysterical moral panic.

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Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats and Nothing But Thieves will be leading the way for this year's Community Festival.

Across the state of Georgia (and in other places around the nation), idiots in power are scoring points with the idiots in the...

We've been talking a bit lately about how the media creates moral panics, especially ones that blame social media for problems that...

Don't worry about an unprecedented rise in the homicide rate in 2020, it's all just a moral panic. It's in your head.

Last month we wrote about adults completely freaking out about supposed viral "TikTok challenges" to do violence in schools...

CNN, the news organization that, until recently, employed Chris Cuomo, and still employs Jeffrey Toobin, and is (for the moment at...

If you recall, the U.S. spent much of 2020 freaking out about TikTok's threat to privacy, while oddly ignoring that the...

A recent episode of the Reply All podcast, Absolutely Devious Lick, touched on a bunch of interesting points regarding the never-ending...