John McWhorter

Linguist at Columbia, Slate's Lexicon Valley, Contributing Ed. at the Atlantic. Next books: 9 NASTY WORDS, THE ELECT. For hot takes, johnmcwhorter.substack.com.

176900 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

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#12	0.009110	Persuasion Community
#16	0.008522	Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#24	0.003461	Harper's Open Letter
#73	0.001746	Heterodox Academy
#100	0.001132	Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#644	0.000142	Populist Libertarians
#808	0.000157	The Long Now Foundation
#811	0.000203	Social Epistemology
#1209	0.000121	Moderate Conservatism
#2276	0.000041	Rationality
#3222	0.000032	Progress Studies
#5425	0.000001	Schumacher Circle
#5471	0.000001	Fair Vote
#5564	0.000001	Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5606	0.000001	Extinction Rebellion
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#6109	0.000001	Environmental Defense Fund
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#8332	0.000000	Effective Altruism
#8362	0.000000	Black Lives Matter
#8949	0.000000	EFF

Journalism

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#635	0.000269	Wall Street Journal
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#3315	0.000038	The Atlantic
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#7105	0.000001	The Economist
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#9917	0.000001	The Los Angeles Times

Think Tanks

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#674	0.000215	American Enterprise Institute
#674	0.000215	National Bureau of Economic Research
#1827	0.000084	Mercatus Center
#2653	0.000016	Hudson Institute
#2910	0.000011	Niskanen Center
#3277	0.000040	Brookings
#4411	0.000019	Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5812	0.000001	RAND Corporation
#5873	0.000001	Belfer Center
#6055	0.000001	Urban Institute
#6264	0.000001	Heritage Foundation
#6644	0.000001	Cato Institute
#7571	0.000001	Atlantic Council
#7671	0.000000	Asia Society Policy Institute
#8034	0.000000	Berggruen Institute
#9095	0.000000	Earth Institute
#9780	0.000000	Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#3372	0.000026	Biotech
#3728	0.000010	Epidemiology Journalism
#5962	0.000001	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6371	0.000001	Philosophy Twitter
#7897	0.000001	Epidimiology Twitter

system

#7890

0.000017

Baseline

Crypto

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#5468	0.000001	Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5558	0.000001	Crypto Political Economy
#5631	0.000001	Polkadot
#6139	0.000000	Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6995	0.000000	Crypto Journalists
#7030	0.000000	Crypto Angels
#7048	0.000000	Cosmos
#7993	0.000000	Public Goods Funding
#8346	0.000000	Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Venture Capital

#3196	0.000010	Village Global
#5443	0.000001	Standard Crypto
#5470	0.000001	Founders Fund
#5876	0.000001	Accel
#6243	0.000001	Sequioa
#6528	0.000000	Bessemer
#6653	0.000001	Y Combinator
#6788	0.000000	My Climate Journey
#7009	0.000000	Sutter Hill Ventures
#7071	0.000000	Index Ventures
#7359	0.000000	Benchmark Capital
#7488	0.000000	Homebrew
#8701	0.000000	Initialized Capital
#9307	0.000000	Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#5553	0.000001	Rust
#6040	0.000000	Zig

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