American academic and linguist
Stanley Kurtz explains at National Review Online why critics of “woke” books in school libraries should avoid trying to ban them. I can’t think of a more encouraging development than…
Glenn Reynolds explains in the New York Post why there is one aspect of French life Americans could emulate. It’s an American export that prudent Europeans want to keep out.…
Mike Sabo writes for Real Clear Education about a response to damage inflicted by the New York Times‘ 1619 Project. Entrepreneur and civil rights movement veteran Robert L. Woodson, Sr.…
Ziva Dahl writes for the American Spectator about a project designed to counter the New York Times‘ destructive 1619 Project. A group of predominantly black scholars, journalists, entrepreneurs, clergy, and…
Columbia University professor John McWhorter gleans interesting insights from a new memoir tackling “hillbilly” culture. For a book arguing that poor Americans have control over the trajectory of their lives…
Columbia English professor John McWhorter reviews for Barron’s a book that focuses on “the black-and-white politics of race on America’s campuses.” In his latest polemic, journalist, novelist, and college lecturer…
Writing in the New York Daily News, John McWhorter makes the case for vocational education as a respected path to self sufficiency and a productive, happy life. Most human beings,…
In the latest TIME, John McWhorter makes the case that President Obama has done much to benefit black Americans, even though he hasn?t followed a ?black-specific agenda.? Whether you endorse…
I highly recommend this article by John McWhorter. Back then, in the early ’70s, Siegfried Engelmann led a government-sponsored investigation called Project Follow Through. It compared nine teaching methods and…
To hear the opponents of Wake County’s new neighborhood schools policy tell it, moving away from forced busing for economic diversity will result in separate-but-equal resegregated schools. You’d think Plessy…
McWhorter on Zora Neale Hurston and Shakespeare John McWhorter writes on Zora Neale Hurston. McWhorter is always worth reading, even when one disagrees with him, as I do on this…
You can tell from this Daily Tar Heel story that author, columnist, and Manhattan Institute scholar John McWhorter shook up the UNC audience Monday night by challenging their acceptance of…