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Books by John McWhorter mentioned on podcasts
John McWhorter's writings have been discussed on various podcast programs. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Michael Shellenberger mentioned reading McWhorter's book Woke Racism around the time it was published, highlighting its argument that wokeism functions as a religion. Rikki Schlott referenced Woke Racism on Modern Wisdom, discussing the concept that certain modern ideologies are supplanting faith in a post-faith world and occupying the human psyche. On No Stupid Questions, Mike introduced McWhorter's book Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still to explain how language changes over time despite dictionaries attempting to keep it precise. John McWhorter himself appeared on Freakonomics Radio, where he discussed Woke Racism in relation to race and cultural issues alongside his book Nine Nasty Words. During an episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt hosted McWhorter to discuss the full title and subtitle of Woke Racism, with McWhorter elaborating on his critique of how certain anti-racist movements inadvertently harm Black individuals.
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Woke Racism
Woke Racism by John McWhorter is a cultural commentary book that argues modern militant anti-racism functions as a new religion, one that ultimately harms Black America rather than helping it.
Discussed“because we had read I had read John mcc's book woke racism which came out right around the time that San Francisco came out and I just was like and he argues that wokeism is a religion”
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Words on the Move
Discussed“There is this linguist, John McWhorter, he wrote a book, Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still, and he talked about the very fact that words just change and dictionaries sort of set in our minds that language is going to be precise forever, and this is just what this word means, or this is how”
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