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, ...

Let's talk political correctness. And the people who enforce it. Who are these people? Who are these unelected officials who tell us what is proper to discuss and what is not? How to phrase things and ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Country House won the Kentucky Derby this weekend, President Trump tweeted that the actual winner of the horse race was political correctness. “Only in these days of political correctness could ...

A few years ago I learned with some confusion that I was now — at least, according to the political left — something called a “cis-male,” which as it turned out (I had to look it up) means someone ...

I read with sadness Mark M. Anderson’s “German Intellectuals, Jewish Victims: a Politically Correct Solidarity” (The Review, October 19). His implicit thesis is that the liberal establishment in ...

Sen. Ted Cruz attacked the anti-political correctness bonafides Saturday of the candidate who has made attacks on “P.C.” politics his signature: Donald Trump. In a new tact, Cruz cast himself as more ...

In high school, a friend told me that words are simply idea-markers. Even in college, many of my friends underplay the impact of language, relying on calcified facts and denying that language has any ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, the Christmas season is about over, and soon I shall be liberated from the alarm I experience every time some benevolent authoritarian accosts me with the line, “Have a Happy Holiday.” The term is ...