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Against the Theory of Sexist Language
- Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
Camille Paglia on Political Correctness
- A libertine/liberal feminist perspective.
CCCP/PCCC
- A satire of "Official Canadian Culture."
Femspeak
- A linguistically-informed polemic against "inclusive" language.
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes
- A policy statement from the American Association of University Professors.
PC and the Crisis of Liberalism
- Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.
Political Correctness
- An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
"Political Correctness" and the American Historical Profession
- Paper arguing that right-wingers have long been imposing their own ideology, with sanctions against speech going against established orthodoxies.
Politically Correct Unix Programming
- List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
Principles of Newspeak
- The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
Racial Terms and PC Language
- List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking
- An inquiry into the language of Soviet ideology by Mikhail Epstein.
Sensitive Language
- A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance
- A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet. (August 12, 2000)
The Onomastic Cringe
- Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy. (January 17, 2000)
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