I Don’t Mind Using Preferred Pronouns. I Mind Being Forced Into It
There is no place for commanding specific language—thoughts, even—in a free and open society.
Refusing To Call The Cleveland Indians By Their Name Is An Absurd Idea
It wouldn’t be out of bounds to ask sensitive Toronto folk to cast their eyes west and tell us why ‘Eskimo’ gets a pass while ‘Indian’ doesn’t.
YouTube’s Heroes Program Empowers The Speech Police
Nobody likes a whiner or a snitch. Except YouTube, apparently, which is giving malcontents ‘super powers’ to shut down people who say things they don’t like.
Political Correctness Is A Tax On Communication
It takes an enormous amount of mental effort to navigate an uncertain and arbitrary set of pieties, and it raises the costs of engaging in frank, forthright, human conversation.
4 Things Dropping ‘Master’ Tells Us About Harvard University
Harvard faculty are supposed to be less gullible, less panicky, and better educated than your average third grader. As this insanity shows, perhaps that’s not so.
Yes, You Can Call A Thief A Criminal
For urban life to remain at all workable, we need strong norms of public behavior and the attendant social pressures of calling a thief what he is.
Universities Incubate America’s Language Police
Political correctness starts in American universities and from there extends to the rest of the country.
Language Policing Doesn’t Pervert Liberalism, It Is Liberalism
Jonathan Chait says PC language policing perverts liberalism. He’s wrong. Liberalism depends on the language police, as Chait himself proves.
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