WATCH: Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter

By The Free Press | Created at 2025-04-03 09:36:42 | Updated at 2025-04-04 05:21:21 19 hours ago

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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