I understand the importance of being nondiscriminatory, but I think the use of politically correct terms has gotten out of control. I went to a local video store recently to rent a movie. When I got ...
Over the past decade or so a rhetorical shift has occurred in our political and social discourse. "Political correctness," the long-standing standard term for the ideological excesses of the left, was ...
It's now cool to be politically incorrect. There are few better or easier ways these days to demonstrate a rebellious streak–to establish one's iconoclastic street cred, if you will–than bashing ...
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 ...
On Oct. 24, 1995, Duke University Press published my first book, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Looking back 30 years at my book, it can be dispiriting ...