"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.
- http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/hst7000/ShapiroPC.htm
Principles of Newspeak
- The appendix to George Orwell's 1984, analyzing totalitarian abuses of language.
- http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
Racial Terms and PC Language
- List of various terms for racial minorities as used in different periods and contexts.
- http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/j1.htm
Case Tests City's Speech Ordinance
- A Michigan housewife is sent to jail for using an ethnic epithet.
- http://mu.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000812mfighti055.frm
The Onomastic Cringe
- Article by John Derbyshire on the revision of ethnonymy and toponymy.
- http://www.olimu.com/Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Ethnonymy.htm
Political Correctness
- An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
- http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/pc.htm
Sensitive Language
- A guide to forms of language preferred by "progressives."
- http://www.randomhouse.com/words/language/avoid_essay.html
Politically Correct Unix Programming
- List of names of programs and terms from Unix and how they would be made politically correct.
- http://www.fiction.net/tidbits/computer/pc-unix.html
Against the Theory of Sexist Language
- Linguistic argument refuting the assumptions behind feminist efforts to reform the English language.
- http://www.friesian.com/language.htm
PC and the Crisis of Liberalism
- Essay by Jim Kalb on the cause and meaning of the phenomenon.
- http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/feb98/kalb-pc.html