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 ...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump opposes the decision to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with 19th Century abolitionist Harriet Tubman, calling it "pure political correctness." ...

Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech? “Political correctness is just ...

In 1989, Michigan University became the first institution of higher learning to pass legislation prohibiting offensive language. The policing of language aims to influence the way a person speaks, ...

Jerry Seinfeld has never deferred to political correctness in his comedy acts and doesn’t plan on ever doing so. “Political correctness is something of a worry for people that can’t think,” he told ...

There are hundreds of thousands of words in the English language. Each word, no matter how commonplace, packs a powerful punch. We can string words together to make someone’s day, break a heart, ...

Sean Lennon is speaking his mind. The 45-year-old son of Beatles legend John Lennon and Yoko Ono has become somewhat known for his sharp opinions and set his sights on "political correctness" during a ...

Back in the early ’90s it would have been hard to imagine a time would come when people would long for double denim, the glumness of grunge and Ethan Hawke’s patchy “Reality Bites” facial hair. Yet ...

The 1994 movie PCU, about a rebellious fraternity resisting its politically correct university, was a milestone. Not because the movie was especially good—it wasn't. It was a milestone because it ...

This past Friday, I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post discussing the christening of U.S. military equipment with American Indian names. I argue that the choice of these names functions as a ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus discussed political correctness, the roles she’s drawn to, including starring in upcoming film Tuesday (out June 14) where she stars as a mother whose teenage daughter has a ...

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 ...