John McWhorter – Liberal Panic over Trump

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0:55 The myth of a secret black language

6:36 The terror of slavery in James

12:13 Essential fictions

15:45 Ground News ad

17:30 Liberal panic over Trump and DOGE

24:10 Is NYC mayor Eric Adams under Trump’s thumb?

26:54 Glenn: What’s wrong with telling illegal migrants to leave?

33:40 ACTA ad

35:54 The differing challenges of European and American immigration

44:08 The significance of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance

52:17 What’s wrong with Ye?

Recorded February 16, 2025

Links and Readings

John’s latest NYT column, “The Truth and the Fiction of Black English”

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye

Allan Gurganus’s novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Francis Burney’s novel, Evelina

R.F. Kuang’s novel, Babel, or, the Necessity of Violence

Gil-Scot Heron’s song, “Whitey on the Moon”

Tucker Carlson interviews Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

John’s book, All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America

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