During the recent presidential campaign, there was a lot of talk the evil of “political correctness” or (PC). A lot has been said about this concept on social media, and I got to thinking about the ...
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 ...
Political correctness and politically correct language have a bad reputation. On the other hand, they can also be seen as good. So what’s going on here? The phrase “politically correct” arose in the ...
In the midst of the much more important stuff happening in the world, you may have missed a recent interview with Jerry Seinfeld. While doing the press rounds to promote his upcoming movie, the ...
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 ...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is weighing in on comedians who say political correctness affects their comedy. The VEEP star is not opposed to being sensitive to certain topics and doesn’t think being ...
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 ...
There it was again, my old acquaintance, “political correctness.” Anywhere inappropriate things are said, there it is — as in, there you go again, objecting to plain talk just because somebody gets ...
"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 ...
Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech? “Political correctness is just ...