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Wishing you a good week, friends
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March 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Stay hydrated . . .
A reminder from mother earth
Wishing you a good week, friends
Photo: Lindsay McWhorter, pinterest
A reminder from mother earth
Wishing you a good week, friends
Photo: Lindsay McWhorter, pinterest
"McWhorter"
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"McWhorter"
Why you should capitalizing the "k" in 401(k).
by John McWhorter
by John McWhorter
April 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Why you should capitalizing the "k" in 401(k).
by John McWhorter
by John McWhorter
February 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
[john mcwhorter warming up, getting ready for the big game]
What will be the first publication out with a “Is it time to destigmatize the N word?”
February 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
[john mcwhorter warming up, getting ready for the big game]
L'homme dans la nature par Christophe McWhorter
July 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
L'homme dans la nature par Christophe McWhorter
"high-profile “free speech” advocates such as Bari Weiss, Jonathan Haidt, David Brooks, David Frum, John McWhorter, and Malcolm Gladwell have either remained silent or championed the arrests."
A review of the signatories of the now-infamous 2020 Harper’s Letter shows that only 24% who put their name on the letter defending “Open Debate” have come out in opposition to Trump’s war on campus free speech. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/demo...
Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents
While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.
inthesetimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"high-profile “free speech” advocates such as Bari Weiss, Jonathan Haidt, David Brooks, David Frum, John McWhorter, and Malcolm Gladwell have either remained silent or championed the arrests."
John McWhorter: Speech is not violence...but you know what is violence? Drums
April 24, 2024 at 12:26 PM
John McWhorter: Speech is not violence...but you know what is violence? Drums
lmao there's a reason every conservative keyboard warrior you've ever met is constantly quoting mcwhorter
April 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
lmao there's a reason every conservative keyboard warrior you've ever met is constantly quoting mcwhorter
mcwhorter reading the text on woody guthrie's guitar and calling the police
Reading the McWorter piece. Paragraphs like this have more potential to radicalise kids than reading the Communist Manifesto. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that at this moment a teenager in the Midwest is looking up his address and in the other tab there’s a pdf of the Anarchist Cookbook
April 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
mcwhorter reading the text on woody guthrie's guitar and calling the police
(John McWhorter sees a dad with a drum)
April 24, 2024 at 12:47 PM
(John McWhorter sees a dad with a drum)
John mcwhorter is awful. He’s a conservative provocateur masking as an academic writer. Dude sucks
April 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
John mcwhorter is awful. He’s a conservative provocateur masking as an academic writer. Dude sucks
I’m sure John McWhorter will be right on it
"....Block denounced the student encampment but made no mention of the Jumbotron sound system that—unlike the student ⛺—had rendered much of the campus unusable for instruction and, in any case, wasn’t engaged in principled protest so much as crude audiovisual vandalism, if not outright terrorism."
For Whom Is Campus to Be Safe? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives....
lareviewofbooks.org
May 12, 2024 at 4:00 PM
I’m sure John McWhorter will be right on it
John McWhorter once challenged me to a public debate about his views on biological race and IQ. After I accepted, he withdrew, claiming he would've crushed me anyway.
what’s the stupidest and/or funniest internet beef you’ve ever been in? there have got to be some great stories here
March 28, 2024 at 11:23 AM
John McWhorter once challenged me to a public debate about his views on biological race and IQ. After I accepted, he withdrew, claiming he would've crushed me anyway.
Guys John McWhorter (Mick-WHORE-ter) makes a great point
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Guys John McWhorter (Mick-WHORE-ter) makes a great point
Returning Honesty to Interpersonal Language
by John McWhorter and Eugene Volokh
by John McWhorter and Eugene Volokh
February 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Returning Honesty to Interpersonal Language
by John McWhorter and Eugene Volokh
by John McWhorter and Eugene Volokh
Extend a little generosity. Maybe she's just filling in for McWhorter lol
No, see the white lady gets to tell the Black guy that the word that originated from the Black community no longer means what it meant because the white people have appropriated it and that takes precedence, now.
August 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Extend a little generosity. Maybe she's just filling in for McWhorter lol
Holy shit John McWhorter is gonna be so pissed, that guy loves free speech
March 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Holy shit John McWhorter is gonna be so pissed, that guy loves free speech
For anyone who needs a reminder about why the linguists want nothing to do with McWhorter
Wild to be up against naked fascism and the dismantling of human rights, separation of powers and free speech and be like man these guys kidnapping people and sending them to camps are making me just as worried as the wokes who hate when you say slurs. American centrism is awesome
April 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For anyone who needs a reminder about why the linguists want nothing to do with McWhorter
McWhorter just wrote a peak Bob Dylan diss track about himself.
April 24, 2024 at 10:58 AM
McWhorter just wrote a peak Bob Dylan diss track about himself.
Wow, John McWhorter has discovered that slavery was bad, apparently.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wow, John McWhorter has discovered that slavery was bad, apparently.
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well i’m sure Malcom Gladwell and John McWhorter are just too busy right now fighting for more importa—
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
well i’m sure Malcom Gladwell and John McWhorter are just too busy right now fighting for more importa—
John McWhorter writing a whole column that is basically "the coddling of Ta-Nehisi Coates" is so funny (and jealous)
October 17, 2024 at 10:16 PM
John McWhorter writing a whole column that is basically "the coddling of Ta-Nehisi Coates" is so funny (and jealous)
John McWhorter-ass shit
April 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
John McWhorter-ass shit