Jay has just finished a book for Pantheon (a division of Random House) that deals with how the government has scapegoated minorities (racial, ethnic, political, religious, sexual) in times of real or exaggerated crisis, from World War I to the present. In the process, hysteria and fear have been used to justify larger crackdowns on civil liberties and dissent. Not a happy story, but a necessary and timely one nonetheless. The book is tentatively titled, Manufacturing Hysteria, and is scheduled for publication in August 2011.