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John McWhorter
John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University and writes weekly for The New York Times.
How Academia Created Jason Arday
The plagiarism scandal at Cambridge is a symptom of a deeper problem: academia’s willingness to accept intellectual mediocrity from black scholars in…
August 10, 2026
John McWhorter
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