Rhetorical Questions (podcast) shares four stories of political correctness

Rhetorical Questions has released Episode 13: Four Stories of Political Correctness. I offer a rhetorical history of “Political Correctness,” from the term’s emergence in the US Communist, Socialist, and “New Left” movements, to the conservative assault on higher education in the 80s and 90s, to the emergence of “PC” in popular culture, and finally to the discourse of Donald Trump’s current presidential campaign. The show, along with previous episodes, is available at www.rhetoricalquestions.org.

Rhetorical Questions seeks to offer rhetorical analyses of social and political phenomena in a form accessible to popular audiences (and suitable for undergraduate students). It launched in April 2015. You can follow the show on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rhetqs) and Twitter (@RhetQs), and you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Links are available on our website, rhetoricalquestions.org. Direct email inquiries to rhetoricalquestions@yahoo.com.

Brian Amsden, Clayton State University
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