Podcast Episodes featuring John McWhorter
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The Immigration Debate after Buffalo (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - May 27, 2022 19:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsJohn: We need a word besides “racism” to distinguish racial inequities from what happened in Buffalo ... Glenn: I don’t agree with everything Tucker Carlson says, but he’s not a racist ... Demographic change is happening in the US, but how should we understand it? ... What does Tucker think he...
Cancellation at St. Olaf College (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Edmund Santurri)
Bloggingheads.tv - May 13, 2022 16:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWhy Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community ... The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events ... John: Administrators at St. Olaf should be ashamed of themselvesc ... Are right-wing campaigns against openly trans and nonbinary elementary...
The Burdens of Black Freedom (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - January 28, 2022 18:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWhat political values does Joe Biden represent? ... Do new election laws amount to race-based voter disenfranchisement? ... Glenn: Black people are free. But what should we do with that freedom? ... John changes his mind about Eric Adams ... John addresses linguistic informality and Sidney P...
Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 27, 2020 16:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWelcome to the Glenn Show 2.0 ... A path to forgiveness for the canceled ... John’s upcoming book and wokeism after Trump ... Why is it so easy to get away with junk sociology today? ... John speaks his mind on Ibram X. Kendi ... The mass delusion of the anti-racism movement ... What is req...
The Creators of "What Killed Michael Brown?" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Steele, and Shelby Steele)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 09, 2020 23:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsGlenn announces a new version of The Glenn Show ... Eli and Shelby's new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... "Why is it so hard to see the truth here?" ... Shelby: Post-'60s liberalism is the culprit ... What changed in black communities between 1950 and 1980? ... White guilt as a dr...
Gimme Shelter (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - March 30, 2020 22:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsJohn reports on sheltering in place in NYC ... Race and the coronavirus ... Is calling the disease the "China virus" xenophobic? ... John wants President Cuomo ... Glenn: "You go to the crisis with the president you've got, not the president that you wish you had" ... John maligns and Glenn defe...
Trump vs. COVID-19 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - March 13, 2020 21:35 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsHow COVID-19 is affecting Glenn and John’s semester ... The mass psychology of coronavirus-inspired shutdowns ... Glenn: The social justice implications of the virus are legitimate ... Will Trump’s handling of the crisis be his downfall? ... Glenn: “The pussy grabber needs help!” ... Is Trump an ...
John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
Conversations with Tyler - March 11, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWho can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind of fast, thoughtful, and energetic response? Listeners of Lexicon Valley might hazard a guess: John McWhorter. A prominent academic linguist, he’s...
Revisiting the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - February 03, 2020 05:29 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsJohn: The central claim of the NYT's 1619 Project "simply isn't true" ... Glenn offers a defense of the Project's perspective ... What the Constitution's three-fifths clause really meant ... John: "America is an endless rehearsal" ... After Kobe Bryant died, was it bad taste to bring up his ra...
Can Atheism Save? Coleman Hughes, John McWhorter, John Gray, MLK Jr, Comte, Rand
Paul VanderKlay's Podcast - January 23, 2020 15:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWe've been exploring secular humanism's durability and staying power. In a conversation between Coleman Hughes and John McWhorter Hughes wonders whether their minority position on race can carry the day without the kind of religious power that Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious setting employed....
What Does MLK Day Mean Now? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - January 21, 2020 20:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsJohn: The racial conversation has improved over the past decade ... Decrying the "racism" explanation when black people don't succeed in a given field ... Glenn: "You're the weakest sister at the table, and you're gonna place demands?" ... The young black men who jump turnstiles and cross in th...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case, Part Two (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 11, 2019 04:06 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsGlenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax ... Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator's conspiracy theories ... John: The public didn't get the full story of Zimmerman's 911 call ... The case as a forerunner of larger dynamics in American political ...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case, Part Two (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - December 11, 2019 04:06 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsGlenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax ... Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator's conspiracy theories ... John: The public didn't get the full story of Zimmerman's 911 call ... The case as a forerunner of larger dynamics in American political ...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - December 06, 2019 21:42 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsGeorge Zimmerman sues a bunch of people for $100 million ... Rightwing filmmaker Joel Gilbert's The Trayvon Hoax ... Gilbert's past conspiracy theorizing ... An age of fake news and relativism ... What John thinks really happened ... Recent racially charged hoaxes ... The racial narrative and ...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 06, 2019 21:42 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsGeorge Zimmerman sues a bunch of people for $100 million ... Rightwing filmmaker Joel Gilbert's The Trayvon Hoax ... Gilbert's past conspiracy theorizing ... An age of fake news and relativism ... What John thinks really happened ... Recent racially charged hoaxes ... The racial narrative and ...
"It's Hard to Be an Individual" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - November 08, 2019 00:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsBuzzwords vs. the power of reason ... College students stay silent instead of saying the wrong thing ... Why cultural appropriation is such a flashpoint ... John: "It's hard to be an individual" ... Cosmopolitanism and fearing the cops ... The sense of belonging that comes from being oppressed ...
"It's Hard to Be an Individual" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 08, 2019 00:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsBuzzwords vs. the power of reason ... College students stay silent instead of saying the wrong thing ... Why cultural appropriation is such a flashpoint ... John: "It's hard to be an individual" ... Cosmopolitanism and fearing the cops ... The sense of belonging that comes from being oppressed ...
Back and Still Black (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - October 11, 2019 21:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsGlenn wants to hear more before supporting impeachment ... John: "Does it not bother you that your country is being run by an idiot?" ... Is Trump a truer tribune of the people than Obama? ... Glenn fears violent civil unrest if Trump is ousted ... Abortion and Trump's Supreme Court picks ...
Back and Still Black (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv - October 11, 2019 21:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsGlenn wants to hear more before supporting impeachment ... John: "Does it not bother you that your country is being run by an idiot?" ... Is Trump a truer tribune of the people than Obama? ... Glenn fears violent civil unrest if Trump is ousted ... Abortion and Trump's Supreme Court picks ...
A Critical Look at the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - September 12, 2019 01:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsCritiquing the NYT's series on American slavery, the 1619 Project ... Why did this package come out now? ... Are today's racial disparities a "predictable" result of slavery? ... The imaginary black man riding the subway who thinks "y'all gotta watch out for me" ... The elided history of black s...
The Case of Roland Fryer (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - August 20, 2019 00:59 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsThe sexual harassment charges against Harvard economist Roland Fryer ... Glenn: Fryer is a victim of the flawed Title IX regime ... John: "Roland has been railroaded" ... Why Fryer's black colleagues didn't defend him ... Is edginess forbidden in the modern academy? ... How would things have play...
Biden, Trump, and Sharpton (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - August 05, 2019 23:35 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWhy Biden is getting a bad rap on race ... John: "Our smarter white people are 'woker' than most black people" ... Why doesn't a Democratic candidate push back? ... Does Trump want us to call him a racist? ... Glenn and John return to their great debate: Is Trump stupid? ... Glenn: Trump has "got...
This Is Your Life (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - July 05, 2019 22:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsJohn's next two books, a history of English and a book on profanity ... Who is hurt when we violate language taboos? ... Glenn on writing his memoir: "The truth hurts" ... Three key turning points in Glenn's life ... Glenn's break with the right (and his friends on the right) ... Do conservative...
John McWhorter on campus wars, victimhood, and "anti-racism" as religion
Conversations with Cathy - June 10, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCathy Young talks to John McWhorter about the campus wars, victimhood, and "anti-racism" as religion. Follow John on Twitter here (https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter). As always, if you have questions or comments, reach me at [email protected] Special Guest: John McWhorter.
Standardizing Disadvantage (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - May 22, 2019 23:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWhy NYC’s elite schools are ditching standardized entry exams ... John: The academic achievement gap is a cultural issue ... Getting good grades and the pressure against "acting white" ... What is oppositional culture theory? ... John: There's no replacement for parental instruction ... Has there...
The "Race Debate" in America Today (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - April 21, 2019 21:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsGlenn and John talk at Harvard about affirmative action and reparations ... Does affirmative action put its recipients at a classroom disadvantage? ... Glenn on the lawsuit against Harvard admissions ... John: Reparations have already happened ... What are the root causes of black poverty? ... Gl...
The Story of Human Language, From Proto Indo-European to Ebonics English—John McWhorter
History Unplugged Podcast - December 04, 2017 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 3.5K ratingsLanguage not only defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators, but it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries. For example... How did different languages come to be? Why isn't there just a single language? How does a ...
John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move
EconTalk - August 21, 2017 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratingsHow did bad come to mean good? Why is Shakespeare so hard to understand? Is there anything good about "like" and "you know?" Author and professor John McWhorter of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the unplanned ways that English speakers create English, an example ...
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Bill Moyers Journal (Video) | PBS - February 27, 2009 22:00 - 21 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 118 ratingsScholar John McWhorter weighs in on whether the U.S. is "a nation of cowards," as Attorney General Eric Holder suggests, on racial issues.
Robert Johnson and John McWhorter
Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS - February 27, 2009 15:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 363 ratingsBill Moyers talks with economist Robert Johnson, who decodes this week's news on the bank bailout, with a hard look at the international ramifications of the plan and a discussion of why nationalization has become a flash point. And, scholar John McWhorter weighs in on whether the U.S. is "a nati...