The Weekly Standard

The federal government's National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is hosting a series of three Edit-A-Thons to improve Wikipedia entries related to gender equality. The collaboration is part of NARA's Amending America initiative celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Meredith Stewart, NARA's Innovation Hub Director, said that the 'Gender Equality' ...

In an interview with free speech advocacy group FIRE, George Carlin's daughter Kelly Carlin, Richard Pryor's daughter Rain, and Lenny Bruce's daughter Kitty confirm their dads would have a few choice words on today's thought police. Kitty Bruce brings up campus censorship: She's found no comic willing to open the Lenny Bruce archives at Brandeis. Those she's asked tell her, Kitty, they want our comedy to be beige. Lenny Bruce, like him or not, was anything but beige, and his bestselling album recorded live at UC Berkeley. And according to Ms. Pryor, political correctness holds us back from a collective healing: We're afraid to laugh at what is painful. Do you know what I mean? We're afraid to go to that line and cross it and then, if we do cross it, we're not crossing it for the sake of enlightenment, right?

Two scholars responsible for the prevalence of the neologism microaggression told The Chronicle of Higher Education they're sorry for how their research has been misused to end conversations. A microaggression is a minor, unintentional, yet nonetheless punishable offense in liberal social circles whereby supposedly privileged individuals unknowingly slight somebody else. Many college campuses have systems in place that allow aggrieved students to report microagressions anonymously, avoiding any interaction with the offending party. But the original intention was to educate, not punish, unenlightened microaggressors, says Derald Wing Sue. The professor at Columbia Teachers College edited Microaggressions and Marginality, a collection of essays and studies published in 2010 that's since gone on to guide the policing of interactions at workplaces and schools. Here's the Chronicle:

On Tuesday, a state legislator in South Carolina proposed a law that would force journalists to register with the state as part of a responsible journalism registry. Of course, Rep. Mike Pitts wasn't seriously proposing this. He was simply engaged in a bit of formal trolling...