The assistant dean of students at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and blog readers share their reactions to the term... Readers had many thoughts on that artifact of the current ...

First heard “politically correct” in 1984, spoken by a college roommate with liberal politics. He was using the phrase with a certain warm irony, implying that for purposes of economy and fellowship, ...

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 ...