paranoid
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It might seem odd that the man who wrote a book called “Only the Paranoid Survive” was also writing in a diary.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Ms. Nelson is the singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style and writes on books, film, music and sports for numerous publications.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Black Sabbath were pioneers in the heavy metal genre of music, writing classic tracks like Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025
As historian Richard Hofstadter warned in his seminal 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”:
From Salon • May 7, 2025
Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground Communist force operating out of the basement of the public library.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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