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Getting the Diagnoses Right

by Josh Marshall
07.17.13 | 6:09 am

Some readers are asking whether Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism is related to a term I coined a few years back, ‘Chronic Racial Grandpaism‘.

I would say they’re related but PSCF is the formal diagnostic category that the DSM-V has chosen. And ‘chronic racial grandpaism’ is something that goes well beyond the world of columnists.

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