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WATCH: Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter
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Why the linguist who critiqued wokeness is now embracing ‘they/them’—and why it will frustrate both the left and right.

John McWhorter is one of the greatest living experts on the English language. He’s a professor of linguistics at Columbia, a columnist at The New York Times, and a Broadway obsessive. He once told me that he couldn’t do an interview because he was rehearsing a cabaret show for his bungalow colony. It sounded like a scene out of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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