Tone Police, Capital Ws, and Ivy League Disemvoweling

Phoebe's lurking in Facebook mom groups inspires a deep dive on tone policing: what it is, why it's used, and whether it killed Alexander Hamilton. (It definitely did.) Then, a discussion of language conventions: the Washington Post's controversial decision to capitalize the "w" in white, and one college graduate's disavowal of her family wealth complet…