Matthew Yglesias and Glenn Loury had a diavlog on Israel & the Congressional Black Caucus. Glenn brought up a paper he wrote back in the 80s when he was a neoconservative, Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of “Political Correctness” and Related Phenomena. I’m still reading through it as I write, but seems like good stuff. Hopefully Anonymous would like it, it references Erving Goffman early on and uses a framework inspired by him.
February 17, 2010
Entitled to an Opinion 
February 17, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I remember reading Loury’s articles for the conservative Acton Institute.
February 18, 2010 at 5:36 pm
That was probably after his arrest, when he shifted from being a neo-conservative to born-again Christian.
I think Loury’s essay would go well with some of the work of Timur Kuran on preference falsification.
February 19, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Kuran wrote an essay for Critical Review some years ago on how preference falsification could undermine deliberative democracy. It was essentially making the point that political correctness is poison for the demos.
February 19, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Over a decade ago.
July 9, 2011 at 8:17 pm
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