John McWhorter – November 2024 Q&A

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Normally, free subscribers to the newsletter and podcast have to wait until Friday receive the new episode. And normally Q&A sessions with John McWhorter, in which we answer questions posed by the audience, are only available to full subscribers. But today is no normal day—I’m releasing our Q&A from last month to everyone.

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Mike Spooner wants to know how I came around to supporting Trump

Substack Reader wants to know if Trump’s reelection signals that we’re entering an era where “reason and common sense once again prevail.”

Michoel Stern senses that I’m becoming more isolationist, and that I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman. So what is the alternative?

Robert Odear asks if there is “an accepted metric for linguistic complexity,” and if there is one, whether linguistically complex societies also tend to be advanced societies.

Nancy wants to know if the triumph over “wokeness” represented by Trump’s election is being felt on campus.

Jonathan E. Burack wants to know why I haven’t responded to this review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.

Pete Bradshaw asks what we think of the use of political slurs like “fascist,” “Hitler,” and “commie.”

Cara C. suggests that, while it was wrong for Democrats to use lawfare against Trump, it is acceptable for Republicans to use it against Democrats, if only to teach them a lesson.

Recorded December 1, 2024

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0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
0:06.6	As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter, exclusive content, and other benefits. Thank you.
0:23.4	Hi, this is Glenn. I trust that you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday.
0:29.2	Usually the new episodes of the Glenn show get published on Mondays for paying subscribers
0:34.4	and on Fridays for the general audience. And usually it's only the paying subscribers who get to access the monthly Q&A that I do with
0:44.7	John McWhorter.
0:47.0	But we're in the holiday season.
0:49.7	So I decided to release this month's Q&A for today on Monday, December 9th, as this week's
0:57.8	episode of the show. Here, John and I respond to subscribers' questions about whether
1:06.0	retaliation for Democrats' lawfare by the new Trump administration is warranted
1:13.2	about the merits of Tom Nehase-Koz's new book, The Message,
1:20.2	which John and I have argued about vociferously in previous episodes,
1:25.9	about whether America should be the world's policeman.
1:29.2	I have my doubts about that.
1:31.7	And about how to measure linguistic complexity,
1:35.6	about which John has a great deal to say,
1:37.8	amongst other topics.
1:40.6	If you enjoy this exchange between John and me
1:43.5	in response to paying subscribers questions,
1:46.2	do consider becoming a paying subscribers so that you don't miss the next one.
1:53.0	Meanwhile, I'll be back with another conversation with John next week.
1:57.5	And in the meantime, I want to let you know that my team and I are starting to make plans for
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