John McWhorter – Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=0s" target="_blank">0:00</a> John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=584s" target="_blank">9:44</a> How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=1167s" target="_blank">19:27</a> Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die …</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=1648s" target="_blank">27:28</a> … but the New York subway is getting scary</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=2265s" target="_blank">37:45</a> Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=3050s" target="_blank">50:50</a> A possible left-wing objection to reparations</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVrUwsHMu4&#38;t=3442s" target="_blank">57:22</a> Glenn goes ham on reparations</p><p>Recorded May 18, 2023</p><p>Links and Readings</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Creates-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061336467" target="_blank">Steven Pinker’s book, </a><em>The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Back-Black-Truths-Americas/dp/1942658583" target="_blank">John’s book, </a><em>Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Word-Street-Debunking-Standard-English/dp/0738204463" target="_blank">John’s book, </a><em>Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure” Standard English</em></p><p><a href="https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/" target="_blank">John’s language podcast, </a><em>Lexicon Valley</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-Magnificent-B*****d-Tongue-History/dp/1592404944" target="_blank">John, </a><em>Our Magnificent B*****d Tongue: The Untold History of English</em></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/jordan-neely-subway-death.html" target="_blank">John’s NYT piece about Jordan Neely, “A Killing on the F Train”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank">Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 </a><em>Atlantic</em><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank"> essay, “The Case for Reparations”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/dp/0553447459" target="_blank">Matthew Desmond’s book, </a><em>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Random-House-Large/dp/0593678540" target="_blank">Matthew Desmond’s new book, </a><em>Poverty, by America</em></p><p><a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/p/norman-finkelstein-the-triple-scam#details" target="_blank">Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Trains-Running-August-Wilson/dp/0452269296" target="_blank">August Wilson’s play, </a><em>Two Trains Running</em></p><p></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">glennloury.substack.com/subscribe</a>