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 ...

The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor has a short piece at the newspaper’s “WorldViews” blog about “How Not to Write about Iran.” In short, he chides Western writers for bias and argues that they err ...

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 ...

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 GOP has become the party of angry white men. What are they angry about? Political correctness. White working-class men see political correctness as a way of shutting them out. And worse.

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 ...