John McWhorter: UncommonJourneys

John McWhorter, Simon's Rock class of '81.

John sits down with Professor Brendan Mathews for a freewheeling conversation about John's career, life, and longstanding association with Simon's Rock. An Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, John specializes in language change and language contact. He is the author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, The Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a "Pure" Standard English and Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care.

John has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Time and the New Yorker.

His frequent media appearances include, Dateline, NBC, Politically Incorrect, Talk of the Nation, Good Morning America, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, UP with Chris Hayes and Fresh Air.

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