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John McWhorter

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He is the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.

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September 2, 2010
John McWhorter
Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
August 26, 2010
John McWhorter
From the Dept. of It Just Doesn’t Matter
August 10, 2010
John McWhorter
What Hope?
August 3, 2010
John McWhorter
Is the CBC Uniquely Unethical?
July 21, 2010
John McWhorter
Sherrodgate: A Conversation on Race Between George Jefferson and Al Bundy
July 16, 2010
John McWhorter
Suck It Up, Tea Partiers—the NAACP's Right On This One
July 15, 2010
John McWhorter
But Is Jesse Jackson *Interesting*?
June 24, 2010
John McWhorter
Guilt Trip
June 21, 2010
John McWhorter
Is English Special Because It's "Globish"?
June 3, 2010
John McWhorter
Is It Interesting to Criticize the Civil Rights Act? Down to Cases with Rand Paul and John Stossel
May 19, 2010
John McWhorter
What Richard Blumenthal, Stanley Fish, and Abe Foxman Have In Common
May 7, 2010
John McWhorter
Please “Treme,” I Beg You--Get Over Yourself
April 16, 2010
John McWhorter
Legitimacy, At Last
April 6, 2010
John McWhorter
What Does Palinspeak Mean?
March 18, 2010
John McWhorter
Tavis Smiley's Backstep: Why Not Just Have a Party?
March 5, 2010
John McWhorter
Taking out My Eraser
February 17, 2010
John McWhorter
Community Colleges Are More Interesting Than Tea Parties
January 22, 2010
John McWhorter
Did "African American" History Really Happen in Atlanta, Cleveland, Philly, and Detroit? Listening to the Census.
January 9, 2010
John McWhorter
Reid's Three Little Words: The Log In Our Own Eye
December 15, 2009
John McWhorter
What To Get a Black Person For Christmas

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