David Kaiser – States of the Union

Preorder Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The many, many books of David Kaiser 3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard 6:09 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard 10:03 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism 12:35 Intellectuals in the wild 14:28 How James Bryant Conant built the modern Harvard … 17:33 … and how it was broken 18:52 Glenn’s previous conversation with Omer Bartov 24:12 Why David thinks the Gaza War falls short of genocide but maybe not ethnic cleansing 25:51 What Claudine Gay could (and maybe should) have said at her congressional hearing 27:51 Why David thinks originalists will have a problem rejecting attempts to remove Trump from electoral ballots 32:38 David: Mitch McConnell should have impeached Trump when he had the chance 36:07 David’s new book, States of the Union 41:03 Have state of the union addresses always been as boring as they are now? 44:55 Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, and their legacies 57:37 Why Obama didn’t propose a New New Deal after the 2008 financial crisis 1:01:01 Biden’s silence Recorded January 10, 2024 Links and Readings David’s book, Economic Diplomacy and the Origin of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939 David’s book, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler David’s book, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War David’s book, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy David’s book, Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017 David’s book, NFL 1965: The Most Exciting Season David’s book, A Life in History David’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023 Glenn’s previous conversation with David Fareed Zakaria on elite universities Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov David’s blog, History Unfolding David’s blog post about the Fourteenth Amendment Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States John F. Kennedy’s June 11, 1963 address on segregation

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