(Don't) Hold Your Mouth

John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University and opinion columnist with The New York Times, in conversation with Kathryn Lynch, Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Wellesley College.

Hosted by the Pluralism Initiative.

McWhorter is the author of more than twenty books, including The Power of Babel, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, Words on the Move, Nine Nasty Words, Woke Racism, and the forthcoming Pronoun Trouble. In addition to his academic work, he writes a weekly column for The New York Times and hosts the popular language podcast Lexicon Valley. McWhorter’s writing and commentary appear widely across national media, and his work is known for making linguistics accessible, lively, and relevant to contemporary cultural debates.

In person and livestreamed via Zoom.