If the right likes to call out left-wing theatrical exaggerations, it has also learned from them and in the past weeks has emulated them. Trump’s nonwhite support suggests a gulf between how the “woke ...

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His new book, Pronoun Trouble, explores the recent ...

When news broke that Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid had praised then-candidate Barack Obama for having "no Negro dialect," pundits immediately snapped to partisan positions either condemning or ...

Between his position in the Columbia linguistics program and his opinion column in The New York Times, professor John McWhorter believes that he has reached the peak of his career—both as a linguist ...