As these examples suggest, contemporary political correctness, though it may have originated and matured in the academy, is not only an academic product. It thrives in the academy, true, as bacteria ...
Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech? “Political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail ...
Americans are deeply divided when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and political correctness, according to a poll from NBC News. The divisions have emerged along partisan ...
What gets to be called art — and who decides? In this wide-ranging Socrates Dialogues conversation, New York–based thinkers, writers, and art admirers Heather Mac Donald and Roger Kimball explore the ...
This blog post is inspired by a recent study conducted in Chris Crandall’s lab at the University of Kansas that measured prejudice and expression of prejudice before and after the election. While the ...
The debate over 'trigger warnings'—statements placed at the start of a piece of writing or video, alerting consumers to potentially distressing content—has garnered much attention of late. For some, ...
When responding to the right’s claims of the left being too “politically correct,” the left has often mistakenly portrayed political correctness as positive, inadvertently agreeing that they are ...
Donald Trump has declared war on political correctness. And suddenly the Washington Post realizes Trump is winning the war. This is a war that could not be won soon enough. To borrow from one of ...
The term “political correctness” is being used—legitimately—to criticize any effort that combines ideology with language to restrict the boundaries of debate over any particular issue There may be no ...
"Seinfeld" and "Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus disagrees with former co-star Jerry Seinfeld’s stance on the state of comedy and "political correctness." "If you look back on comedy and drama both, let ...