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It's Monday, October 1st, and this is The Gist.

I'm John McWhorter.

I teach linguistics at Columbia.

I'm the host of Lexicon Valley here at Slate, and I write for the Atlantic.

And I'm honored to be sitting in today for Mike Pesca.

And I want to get started right away with a question.

How is claiming weakness a form of strength?

Of course you might ask who said it was, and unfortunately it's some of the smartest

people in the world.

Much of our intelligentsia, on college campuses and beyond, are teaching America one of the

most counterintuitive ways of thinking that humankind has ever known.

We learned some key perspectives on this from a crucial new book, The Coddling of the

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