New at Reason: Time Magazine's Long History of Scaring the Hell Out of You

June 10, 2009

For the last four decades, no magazine has done more to gin up cheap moral panics than America's leading newsweekly, Time. From frightening parents about Internet porn and Pokemon to cowering at the "rise of satanism" to scolding us about our filthy language, Time has never let logic, restraint, or a lack of supporting evidence get in the way of a good bed-wetting.

Reason's Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler offer a Top 10 list of the most horrifying, silly, irresponsible, and downright ridiculous Time cover panics from the past 40 years.

Read all about it here.