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Hoover Institution fellow Glenn Loury announces a livestream on Friday, July 24 at 1:00 PM EDT, featuring linguist John McWhorter in the first hour to answer subscriber questions on AI ethics, academic integrity, phonics of unconventional names, heterodoxy versus contrarianism, and balancing individuality and socialization in children. In the second hour, literary scholar Tess Chakkalakal joins to discuss her biography 'A Matter of Complexion' about Charles Chesnutt, a pioneering but largely forgotten African American novelist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The stream is exclusive to full subscribers on Substack and YouTube members.
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Friday, July 24 at 1:00 P.M. EDT
John McWhorter joins me once again for tomorrow's livestream. I reached out to full subscribers here on Substack for questions, and as always, you delivered. We'll be covering a wide range of topics, including:
- The ethics of AI
- Academic integrity (also involving AI)
- The phonics of unconventionally spelled names
- The difference between heterodoxy and contrarianism
- Balancing individuality and socialization in children
It's a broad spread—from the global to the personal—but I'm confident John and I are up to the task.
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Second Hour: Tess Chakkalakal on Charles Chesnutt
In the second hour, we'll be joined by literary scholar Tess Chakkalakal, author of A Matter of Complexion, a biography of writer Charles Chesnutt.
If you don't know who Chesnutt is, you're not alone. He was a pathbreaking African American novelist and short story writer active in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Despite his accomplishments, his work fell into semi-obscurity after his death in 1932. Yet he is arguably the first major African American novelist.
A subtle ironist and a significant figure in turn-of-the-century race debates, Chesnutt was part of the first generation of Black Americans to come of age after Emancipation. His life and work offer a fascinating window into a period—what he called in his last speech "Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem"—that has received comparatively little attention in African American literary history.
Tess will walk us through his work, his life, and his afterlife, explaining how this great writer fell out of favor and why he is now the object of renewed interest.
How to Watch
Join me tomorrow, Friday, July 24 at 1:00 P.M. EDT, for what promises to be another blockbuster livestream.
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