Bill of Writes

Confronting the Jihad of Junkthought Political correctness may be all the rage, but as Peggy Lee said about fever, it's not a such a new thing. It started long ago, and Lloyd Billingsley has been writing about it for decades. "Political correctness," he notes in Bill of Writes, "is a legacy of the Old Left, which allowed only one 'correct' view on anything." And as the author's Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield demonstrate, "political correctness is usually at odds with factual correctness." Political correctness "dead-bolts the mind and rigs an alarm system that demonizes any challenge to orthodoxy." It also "deploys a presumption of guilt, not innocence." Political correctness "divides society into an oppressor class and a victim class, and elevates group rights over individual rights." Political correctness is thus "a form of identity theft," and it gets worse. "Politically correct superstition is now dominant, a veritable jihad of junkthought, and increasingly deployed by government." The author shows how that works, and a lot more. The selections in Bill of Writes, Peter Collier explains in the foreword, "are all part of an inner conversation aimed at the truth." Readers will find "a unique trip log of a writer who has been singularly engaged with the issues of his day."