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So to Speak podcast: John McWhorter says academics are really, really worried

Last summer, Columbia University Professor John McWhorter wrote that he was receiving missives almost daily “from professors living in constant fear for their career because their opinions” are incompatible with campus orthodoxies. On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we catch up with McWhorter to discuss how the culture has changed (or not) since The Atlantic published his article,
McWhorter is a member of 鶹ýIOS’s Board of Directors and the host of the popular .
Click here to read a transcript of this podcast conversation.
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