I’m Australian by birth, Texan by appointment (thanks, Gov. Perry) and American by heart. I came to America for the American Dream—and to escape political correctness. But the two are not mutually ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s inflammatory statements about Mexican immigrants, Muslim refugees and women who get abortions may eventually be his campaign’s undoing, some analysts say. But don’t tell that to the ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus countered former co-star Jerry Seinfeld's comments blaming political correctness for killing comedy, saying that having an “antenna about sensitivities” is a good thing — and that ...

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 ...

Is “politically correct” culture killing comedy? Veteran comedian Mel Brooks said, yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. In an interview with BBC radio on Wednesday, Brooks said he would not have been ...

McGill University political scientist and occasional Reason contributor Jacob T. Levy raises some good points in an interesting but flawed piece for the Niskanen Center. Levy criticizes the notion ...

F ree speech is dying on the American campus — or so we’ve been told. The culprit is left-wing political correctness. But this narrative doesn’t pass scrutiny. Given the media attention that left-wing ...

This essay is the winner of The Economist’s Open Future essay competition in the category of Open Society, responding to the question: “Has political correctness gone too far?” The winner is Julia ...

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