John McWhorter

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Harvard, Herschel Walker and ‘Tokenism’

What ‘Good Times’ taught me about holding Black people to lower standards.

Why the Overturning of Roe Won’t Lead to a Return of Segregation

A constitutional slippery slope wouldn’t take the Supreme Court toward revisiting the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Gun Violence Is Like What Segregation Was. An Unaddressed Moral Stain.

How else to explain the resistance to dealing with it?

I’m Pro-Choice. But I Don’t Think Pro-Lifers Are Bad People.

Too often, we fail to credit our political opponents’ morality.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has an ‘African’ Name. I Wish We Knew More About It.

Its unspecified origin leaves a linguistic shoe undropped.

Don’t Assume Ilya Shapiro’s ‘Lesser Black Woman’ Tweet Was Racist

Georgetown shouldn’t have placed him on leave.