Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His new book, Pronoun Trouble, explores the recent ...

I usually find John McWhorter, Columbia linguistics professor and New York Times columnist, a serious thinker, insightful writer, and fount of good sense. But I was brought up short by his recent ...

African-Americans suffer degraded lives of horrible poverty, the victims of relentless white discrimination, right? Wrong, says John McWhorter, Ph.D., associate professor of linguistics at the ...

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