John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?

0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story?

9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John

17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times

22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry

36:18 Is wokeness on the wane?

42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain

51:46 A Democrat by any other name

56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump

Recorded August 31, 2023

Links and Readings

The Philadelphia Harriet Tubman statue

John’s NYT piece, “Two Languages Walk into a Bar”

John’s NYT piece, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry”

Oliver Anthony’s song, “Rich Men North of Richmond”

Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That in a Small Town”

Donald Trump’s mugshot

Sabrina Salvati’s YouTube channel

Carol Swain’s recent TGS episode

Carol Swain’s book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress

Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules

Carol Swain’s PragerU videos