Under the Radar: Political Correctness Never Died
by Cathy Young
July 1, 2004
Reason
These days, talking about political correctness in academia
makes you sound like a quaint throwback to the 1990s. It
seems utterly irrelevant to the post-9/11 era, a threat dwarfed
by (depending on whom you listen to) either terrorism or
losing our liberties to the war on terrorism. Eric Wasserman,
executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE), says many people have a knee-jerk
reaction to the very phrase political correctness, seeing it as an old story.
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