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 ...

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

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." ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The words "Political Correctness 101" on a blackboard in chalk Getty Images The response to the attack has not been nearly as effective. There have been articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, ...

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 ...

Rachel del Guidice works in communications and media in Washington, D.C. She previously was a congressional reporter and podcast host for The Daily Signal. What is political correctness? When did it ...

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 ...