Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity?  ... The decline of blind auditions  ... Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians?  ... Why Don is protecting his real identity  ... Glenn delivers a soliloquy on humanity  ... John: Eliminating blind auditions is “bat shit crazy”  ... Should John’s daughters benefit from affirmative action? ...

DEI in the Orchestral World (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Don Baton )

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ORDER 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 A message from Glenn 1:14 Unsettling the “Settled Questions,” Glenn Loury & John McWhorter 2:59 The Race and IQ Question, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter 12:19 Facing Reality, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray 21:40 The IQ Taboo, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax 31:08 Debate with an Embattled Racial Realist, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax 45:44 The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality, Glenn Loury 48:21 The Dangers of Research into Race & IQ, Glenn Loury & Lex Fridman 

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John McWhorter, Charles Murray, Amy Wax, Jordan Peterson & Lex Fridman – The Race and Intelligence Debate

Order 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 Intro 2:50 “I got arrested driving a stolen car ...” 9:27 The Regal Auntie Eloise and the Bug-Eyed Uncle Moonie 23:17 “There was a lot of pain that the blood of Jesus was invoked to cover ...” 39:38 Winners & Losers 50:31 Words I Think of When Remembering My Mother 

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The Memoir Tapes Vol. 1: Stealing a Car, Aunt & Uncle, Church, Winners & Losers, Jekyll & Hyde

ORDER 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 end of a tumultuous semester  4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests  9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine?  16:40 Ground News ad  18:41 Has Israel gone too far in Gaza? 22:32 Should students be forced to listen to protests that might offend them?  35:11 Glenn’s book is out this week!  41:11 An update on Glenn’s recovery and hospital cuisine Recorded May 11, 2024 Links and Readings John’s NYT piece, “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice” John’s NYT piece, “The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did” John’s NYT piece, “Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?” Coleman Hughes and Robert Wright debate Israel-Palestine Pamela Paul’s NYT piece on Glenn, “He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.” WSJ’s review of Late Admissions Tunku Varadarajan’s 2020 WSJ profile of Glenn WaPo’s review of Late Admissions 

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John McWhorter – Campus Protests at Semester's End

Click the timestamp to go to the indicated clip in this YouTube video, click the title to go to the video from which the clip was pulled 0:00: Intro from Glenn 2:15: Cops and Race - May 29, 2020 10:09: The Viruses - June 9, 2020 16:39: A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation - June 3, 2020 21:14: The Slippery Slope to Hell - April 23, 2021 27:10: What Made George Floyd? - June 23, 2022 34:21: The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality - April 18, 2022 41:38: The Truth about George Floyd's Death - December 4, 2023 55:51: Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - December 18, 2023 1:10:29: What the Controversial George Floyd Doc Didn't Show Us - February 16, 2024 1:24:13: Minneapolis after George Floyd - March 1, 2024 1:27:34: Prosecuting Derek Chauvin - April 5, 2024  

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John McWhorter – Four Years of George Floyd

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 A message from Glenn 3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world 12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books 13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance” 18:40 The “mission creep” of identity politics 24:23 Tyler Austin Harper University’s admissions policy 28:44 Does diversity contribute to quality of education? 35:18 The trouble with being “the black person” in class 37:38 Diversity at Bates College, where Tyler teaches 41:38 Night fishing with Tyler, insect collecting with John 45:46 Tyler’s prolific social media presence 48:38 Tyler’s five-year plan 52:51 The turn away from obscurantism in the humanities Recorded April 28, 2024 Links and Readings Glenn and John’s first conversation with Tyler Glenn and John talk with Tyler and Daniel Bessner Mary Shelley’s novel, The Last Man Tyler’s NYT piece, “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions” Christopher Lasch’s book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations Richard Hanania’s book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics Glenn’s conversation with Peter Arcidiacono Tyler’s X (formerly Twitter) account Tyler’s Atlantic piece, “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad” Jacques Derrida’s essay, “No Apocalypse, Not Now” 

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DEI in the Orchestral World (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Don Baton )

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