The World from PRX

John Mcwhorter

Sarah Stiles and Andy Grotelueschen in the Broadway production of “Tootsie.”
Arts
I am the very model of a modern Broadway patter song
Arts, Culture & Media
About that “Negro dialect”…
Arts, Culture & Media
How Shakespeare Came Alive for Me — and Stays Alive Today
Arts, Culture & Media
How Shakespeare Came Alive for Me — and Stays Alive Today
The Elements of Style
Arts
Why ‘The Elements of Style’ is out of style
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s the point of learning Russian?
Pregnant clockwise in Chinese, Georgian, Portuguese, Thai, Afrikaans, Albanian, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian.
Lifestyle & Belief
Do the words we use to describe pregnancy reveal our feelings toward it?
Business, Economics and Jobs
New research suggests language structure may play factor in personal saving
Arts, Culture & Media
Gracie Award-winner ‘Sounding Black’
Arts, Culture & Media
Does the Language You Speak Determine How Much Money You Save?
Conflict & Justice
Are Blue Collar Jobs the Answer to the Shrinking Black Middle Class?
The Nuclear Plowshare
Soviet Nuclear Contamination Confirmed
Arts, Culture & Media
Sounding Black
Arts, Culture & Media
Should we use !@#$ curse words more?
Arts, Culture & Media
Rebooting the NAACP for the 21st Century