John Mcwhorter

3 Books For The Grammar Lover In Your Life

npr.org | By H. W. Fowler, David Crystal | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Jack W. Lynch, Lynne Truss, Npr, H. W. Fowler and David Crystal, Grammar Lover, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Eats Shoots and Leaves, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, John Mcwhorter, The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English From Shakespeare to South Park, Books News

What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of t...

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Cornel West: The Black Conscience or A Brooding Crank?

Pascal Robert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Shirley Sherrod, Cornel West, Melissa Harris Lacewell, Race, John Mcwhorter, Barack Obama, Politics News
Pascal Robert

Is Cornel West's Obama unhappiness a reflection of the Black Community's sentiments generally, or the indulgences of an academic with the trappings of the Ivy League providing a parlor room for his political musings.

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John McWhorter, Party of One

Taylor Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African-American History, Black History, Paulo Freire, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Mcwhorter, Politics News
Taylor Harris

Conservative scholar and author, John McWhorter, who created a list of people he would erase from black history, misses an opportunity to dig deeper and reveal a poignant tension in our racial history.

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Glenn Beck vs. Van Jones: McCarthyism Enters the 21st Century

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, President Barack Obama, The New Republic, Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck Show, Van Jones, Fox News, Green Jobs, James Leon Holmes, Arkansas Right to Life, Joseph McCarthy, Mccarthyism, Glenn Beck, Council of Conservative Citizens, President George W. Bush, John Mcwhorter, Republican Echo Chamber, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.

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Jason Linkins

John McLaughlin Offers Critical Analysis Of Fifty Cent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mcwhorter, John McLaughlin, 50 Cent, Politics News

This will probably, and unfairly, go a long way toward taking attention away from what I'm sure was a thoughtful discussion between professional orner...

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