John McWhorter – January 2025 Q&A

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
0:06.6	As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter, exclusive content and other benefits.
0:21.8	Thank you.
0:23.4	John McWhorter of Columbia University is with me here today.
0:28.4	I'm Glenn Laughery of Brown University.
0:30.2	This is The Glenn Show.
0:32.2	And if you're seeing this, you're undoubtedly a peg subscriber who gets to submit questions for our monthly Q&A and gets to hear our responses to those questions.
0:42.6	And that's what we're about today. How are you, John? I'm good. How are you?
0:47.0	I'm pretty good. I'm not complaining. I'm teaching my last semester here at Brown,
0:54.5	and it's kind of bittersweet,
0:56.5	and I've got a seminar with 20 fresh faces,
0:59.6	and they're eager and full of questions and comments,
1:02.9	and it's fun.
1:04.4	And I'm starting already to feel a little nostalgia and stuff like that.
1:09.2	It's good to go out like that.
1:10.8	Yeah, yeah. But I'm good. It's good to go out like that.
1:11.1	Yeah.
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:13.6	But I'm good.
1:14.8	I'm good.
1:16.9	We have questions here.
1:19.5	Shall I just get to them then?
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