While the book stirs fury against the moralistic government forces arrayed against Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece, Birmingham's book also gives rise to uneasy intimations of the invidious forces of self-censorship at work today, forces that arise from publishers' commercial worries, political correctness, and the hegemony of the campus creative-writing crowd.
This is a worrying political correctness.
Although the public relations business has long been comfortable with crisis management, "there is almost a new political correctness we have to worry about," Mr. Bergen said.
Anke Neibig Newcastle upon Tyne That the Guardian does not in the first instance call the Nazi camps "German" is not a sign of "worrying political correctness".
But perhaps the Dean's letter was aimed at a different audience ― those concerned with the bogeyman of political correctness and those who worry that free speech isn't the absolute value it used to be.
He didn't get personal with Trump but he did get serious, telling the mogul to worry less about political correctness and more about being correct, as he fact-checked his rival in real time.
Worry about political correctness at your own peril.
But it seems that Perkins has realized that Trumpism can be understood less specifically, too: as an injunction against the usual concerns of political correctness or partisan tactics, against worrying about the way things might appear.
I hope Jilly Cooper OBE does write a lesbian sex scene, and I hope she gets it right, but her obvious contempt for what she considers political correctness gone mad is a worry.
If you are worried about political correctness, you have already lost.
When he got the radio gig on WIND-AM 560 in March 2013, Walsh said: "I intend to do with this program what I did as a U.S. congressman — speak plainly, speak directly, not worry about political correctness and engage in respectful, engaging debate with all viewpoints".
