Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The PC Lexicon -- Politically Correct Fairy Tales -- A Brief History of the Term Political Correctness -- Contextualizing the Argument -- Rhetorical Considerations in the Age of Paranoia -- 2. Sound Bite Myth: Scholars Hate Students -- The Checklist of Grievances -- Teachers Who Don't Teach -- Spies in the Classroom -- Deciphering the Parchments -- 3. The Myth of Disinterested Scholarship -- Appropriating the Center -- Constructing the PC Metanarrative -- Much Ado about Gayatri Spivak and Stanley Fish -- Think Tank Means to Foundational Ends -- 4. Mythic Parameters: Fast-Food PC, McCarthyism, and McReaganism -- Inoculating the Body Politic -- The Mythic Parameters of PC Discourse -- McCarthyism into McReaganism -- 5. Constructing the Enemy -- 57 Flavors of Intimidation -- The Process of Paranoid Projection -- An International Politics of Paranoid Projection -- Freudian Projection and the Politics of Moral Hubris -- McReaganism Today: The War to Impeach Clinton -- Neoconservative Extremists and PC -- 6. The Mirror of Manufactured Cultural Relations -- Paranoid Projection and the Lacanian Mirror -- Paranoid Projection in the Cultural Mirror -- Boys to Men to Gods -- The Commodity Exchange in the Cultural Mirror -- Mapping Images onto the Narrative of Political Correctness -- 7. White Male Canon Formation and the End of History -- The Great Books Lobby -- Male-Centered Canon Building -- Scripting Modernity: Woolf's Acts as Case in Point -- Interpellating the Subject of History -- Induced Transference onto Big Brother -- Left in the Mirror -- 8. Where Do We Go from Here? -- Skip Porteous (Institute For First Amendment Studies) -- Myrna C. Adams (OpenMind) -- Curt Shepard (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) -- Sandra Coyner (National Women's Studies Association).

Gerald Graff and Gregory Jay (Teachers for a Democratic Culture) -- Stanley Aronowitz (Union of Democratic Intellectuals) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.