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John McWhorter

John McWhorter just took me down memory lane

John Fea   |  June 1, 2022

Thanks to McWhorter‘s recent piece at The New York Times, I spent way too much time this morning watching old Looney Tunes clips. Here is a taste: During these times so utterly glum, I’m in a mood to share a...

John McWhorter on critical race theory and what is happening in schools under the name of “critical race theory”

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

The Columbia University professor lets it rip, as he is prone to do, at his Substack newsletter. A lot of things worth considering here. McWhorter has always made a lot of sense to me on this issue. Here is a...

“Does teaching America it’s racist make it less racist?”

John Fea   |  May 20, 2021

Here is a fascinating discussion between Jane Coaston, John McWhorter, and Michelle Goldberg. A taste: Jane Coaston: Critical race theory. It’s a concept that originated in academic circles in the mid-1970s, but one that only hit the mainstream in the...

John McWhorter unleashes a critique on Ibram X. Kendi and the antiracism movement

John Fea   |  February 1, 2021

This morning I read Columbia University’s John McWhorter‘s stinging critique of Ibram X. Kendi and the antiracism movement. It is a piece that every college and school administrator should read. McWhorter writes: In the Atlantic piece I wrote of how...

*Harper’s Magazine* publishes “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”

John Fea   |  July 7, 2020

  This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael...

Conservative African American Intellectuals Respond to *The New York Times* 1619 Project

John Fea   |  February 18, 2020

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is calling attention to Episode 63 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast.  This is our interview with Kings College (PA) history professor Thomas Mackaman, a critic of The New York Times Magazine’s...

A Metric to Help Us Decide if a Monument Should Stay or Go

John Fea   |  September 18, 2017

John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia University and one of our leading public intellectuals, offers this metric: Was the person’s or cultural artifact’s historical impact exclusively focused on slavery and racism? Did the person insist on their support of...

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