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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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October 13, 2009
John McWhorter
Just a Cartoon, But Still: Is Family Guy in Blackface Funny?
September 1, 2009
John McWhorter
Mad Men In a Good Place: How Did People Sound in 1963?
August 17, 2009
John McWhorter
Why The National Review Would Have Loved Zora Neale Hurston
July 13, 2009
John McWhorter
The Philly Swimming Club: You Know What That's All About -- Or??
June 29, 2009
John McWhorter
The Supreme Court Finally Gets Real On "disparate Impact"
June 25, 2009
John McWhorter
Michael Jackson: The Man Who Wasn't There
June 16, 2009
John McWhorter
Apparently I'm Still Wrong About The NAACP
May 27, 2009
John McWhorter
Oh, The Humanity: Ida, Cooking, Cooing And How Homo Became Sapiens
May 19, 2009
John McWhorter
Will Shakespeare's Come And Gone: Does The Bard's Poetry Reach Us Like August Wilson's? Come On--really?
May 15, 2009
John McWhorter
Big Bosoms And The Big Bang: Did The Human Condition Really Emerge In Europe??
May 1, 2009
John McWhorter
Lions And Sailers And Bears, Oh My!--why Saletan Thinks We Should Keep The Black-white Performance Gap Under Wraps
April 24, 2009
John McWhorter
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce: The Cornell Takeover Redux At Stanford, 1989
April 24, 2009
John McWhorter
Debating Preferences: Class Versus Race
January 29, 2009
John McWhorter
Lib and Let Die
January 14, 2009
John McWhorter
Direct Answer
October 16, 2008
John McWhorter
On The Content of His Character
August 29, 2008
John McWhorter
My Problems With The Speech
January 25, 2008
John McWhorter
The TNR Primary: Part Four
September 9, 2002
John McWhorter
The Arrangements
January 14, 2002
John McWhorter
Uses of Ugliness

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