Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

“Political correctness” has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation. In the workplace, on social media, and even at the dinner table, Americans are confronted daily with a laundry list of words they're "not allowed" to say—and that list is updated constantly and without warning.How did so absurd a concept become so dangerous—and come to dominate our public discourse over the last quarter-century?