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Political Correctness
November 25, 2024
Magazine
Samuel P. Catlin
How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.
April 3, 2020
Jacob Bacharach
Watching
South Park
at the End of the World
The soul of conservative America just might be found in a cartoon about a gang of vulgar little boys.
September 26, 2017
Graham Vyse
Georgetown is giving Jeff Sessions a safe space from scary political correctness.
September 15, 2017
Clio Chang
People like Chelsea Manning have always been unwelcome at places like Harvard.
September 15, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
All Novels Aren’t Political Statements. But They’re Not Apolitical, Either.
What Lionel Shriver got right—and wrong—in her controversial speech about political correctness in literature.
September 7, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
How to Fix Our Toxic Debate About Political Correctness on Campus
The issue is real; solutions are few. Here are four rules we should agree on.
August 25, 2016
Jeet Heer
The University of Chicago is attacking academic freedom.
May 19, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Donald Trump Is America’s Racist Uncle
Calling him out on his bigotry is futile.
April 26, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
What the P.C. Left Is Doing Wrong in Language Debates
March 30, 2016
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
,
Amna Khalid
The Rise of “Bias Response Teams” on Campus
Colleges across America are creating shadowy groups to handle complaints. Will they end up muzzling students instead?
February 14, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Mooning everyone could only help Jeb at this point.
January 22, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
College Students Aren’t “Cuddly Bunnies”
How anti-P.C. activists use misleading rhetoric to dismiss serious problems.
December 23, 2015
Aaron R. Hanlon
Oberlin’s Food Isn’t “Cultural Appropriation.” That Doesn’t Mean the Students Are Wrong.
December 7, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
In another win for the PC police, Fox News suspends a contributor for calling Obama a “p***y.”
November 24, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Think Campus P.C. Is Out of Control? Look at the Military.
It turns out that even the millennials who fight wars don't want to hear bigoted jokes.
August 14, 2015
Aaron R. Hanlon
The Trigger Warning Myth
Coddled students aren’t the cause of a mental health crisis on campus, they’re just pawns in the culture wars.
June 11, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Professors Do Live in Fear—But Not of Liberal Students
June 5, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Hostile Renegotiation of the Professor-Student Relationship
College classrooms will never be the same again—and that's not necessarily a bad thing
March 25, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Stop Using College Students as Political Pawns
March 23, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don't Blame Students for Being Hypersensitive. Blame Colleges.
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