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That's what we're up against, so that's why there are some people who believe there's one truth. They think they found the final solution. They think they are [ philospher Immanuel ] Kant. They aren't.

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John McWhorter

John Hamilton McWhorter V (; born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist and associate professor of linguistics in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, where he teaches linguistics, American studies, philosophy, and music history. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations, and his writing has appeared in many prominent magazines. His research specializes on how creole languages form and how language grammars change as the result of sociohistorical phenomena.

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