When New Art’s Really Old: From the Valley of the Kings to Pompeii to a Rubens in a Paris Closet Audio By Carbonatix It’s laughable on its face to suggest otherwise. In a new piece, Alex Nowrasteh, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

As cancel culture continues to destroy both careers and discourse around the nation, the idea of what positions are politically acceptable to hold or which views are even open to articulation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In 2014, a muslim student at The University of Michigan was harassed for a satirical column he wrote about the oversensitivity of students at his school. As Jonathan Chait described in a post in New ...

Famed 91-year-old filmmaker Mel Brooks, known for his film parodies, reflected recently on his time in Hollywood during an interview with The Daily Beast. The iconic writer, director and actor, spoke ...

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