On the night of October 14, a handful of curious undergraduates trickled into 517 Hamilton.

On February 16, 1987, the Columbia Daily Spectator broke a new story: “Students caught with CU uranium.”

Between his position in the Columbia linguistics program and his opinion column in The New York Times, professor John McWhorter believes that he has reached the peak of his career—both as a linguist and as a cultural critic.