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Glenn Loury (
Manhattan Institute
,
Brown University
) and John McWhorter (
Columbia University
,
Lexicon Valley
,
New York Times
)
John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me”
.
0:00
How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields
.
10:11
Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die …
.
19:37
… but the New York subway is getting scary
.
27:23
Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme”
.
37:39
A possible left-wing objection to reparations
.
50:45
Glenn goes ham on reparations
.
57:18
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May 18
Posted:
May 26, 2023
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Steven Pinker’s book,
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
John’s book,
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca
John’s book,
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure” Standard English
John’s language podcast,
Lexicon Valley
John,
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
John’s NYT piece about Jordan Neely, “A Killing on the F Train”
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014
Atlantic
essay, “The Case for Reparations”
Matthew Desmond’s book,
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond’s new book,
Poverty, by America
Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
August Wilson’s play,
Two Trains Running
The Glenn Show | May 26, 2023 | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
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