John McWhorter
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Columbia linguist, weekly at NYT, biweekly Lexicon Valley podcast and Glenn Show. 9 NASTY WORDS and WOKE RACISM in 2022. Later this year: PRONOUN TROUBLE!
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27-03-2013 01:43:27
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A smart look-back at the 'Intellectual Dark Web' from Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 that includes John McWhorter summarizing many of the members' “drift into poised lunacy.”
plus.thebulwark.com/p/from-intelle…
Endless constructive counsel here on a DEI that doesn't mission creep into Cultural Revolution territory. The usual shining common sense from Conor Friedersdorf. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
All of this from my colleague at Columbia Ross Perlin. Languages 'nobody here speaks' are always fascinating in endless ways. There's a reason Ross and I devote careers to them. (English prepositions, LIKE and such are just what I do 'on TV'.) nytimes.com/2024/03/10/opi…
Broadway's basic blackness - a theme of John Mauceri as well as me, encapsulated in this luscious piece of weekend reading. airmail.news/issues/2024-3-…
Today I did All Things Considered on the eternal nonsense notion that we shouldn't end sentences with prepositions. npr.org/2024/03/01/123…