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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter
Description: John McWhorter is one of the greatest living experts on the English language—and many others, too. He’s an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia, a columnist at The New York Times, and he’s an unsung Broadway aficionado. He once told us he could not do an interview because he was busy rehearsing a cabaret show for his bungalow colony. It all sounds like a scene out of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.But in his day job, he is thinking about words, language, and—the not-so-controversial topic of pronouns. John is a true ind...