Pessimists Archive Newsletter

Fears about old things when they were new

Dec 28, 2020

Pessimists Archive explores fears about old things when they were new via newspaper archives. Why? Because the best antidote to fear of the new is looking back at fear of the old.

Steven Pinker put it best when he said: “Pessimists Archive is invaluable in putting today’s tech moral panics in historical perspective.”