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John McWhorter
- Linguistic Relativity
The linguist John McWhorter has written a plethora of books on the English language. For an academic (he’s a professor at Columbia University), he has a very progressive view of English’s evolution, a supporter of the…
- Language and Progress
A wide-ranging conversation on linguistics, human scientific advancement, and enlightenment thinking with Steven Pinker and John McWhorter. Linguistics is endlessly fascinating. I might be an outlier, but I absolutely…