John McWhorter

Recently, I had the great satisfaction of working with John McWhorter on the design for his Substack Channel, 'It Bears mentioning'

John teaches linguistics, philosophy, and music history at Columbia University. This makes him the most interesting kind of person in my opinion. He also hosts the highly bingeable podcast, Lexicon Valley, and is a contributing Editor at The Atlantic.

He's authored about twenty books & created five language and linguistics courses for the Great Courses. He's also written columns for the New Republic, the Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Washington Post & The Wall Street Journal, among others.

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