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0:00 John: Not all of Trump’s demands on Columbia are crazy

3:45 Are the accusations of antisemitism at Columbia apt?

12:43 Ground News ad

14:22 The shifting public perception of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

24:30 The historical legacy of Gaza’s starvation

27:40 Glenn: There are ways to destroy Israel without an army

32:21 The lull in American race politics

38:22 Has the race debate devolved to Sidney Sweeney’s jeans?

47:27 John’s theory of violent crime among black youths

Recorded August 5, 2025

Links and Readings

John’s April 23, 2024 NYT column, “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.”

Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Glenn’s conversation with Beinart

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, Between the World and Me

Courtney Moorehead Balaker and Ted Balaker’s documentary, The Coddling of the American Mind

Sidney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad

John’s NYT column, “Do These Jeans Make My Ads Look Racist?”

Glenn and John’s conversation with Randall Kennedy

Glenn and John’s conversation with Keith Ellison

Thomas Sowell’s book, Black Rednecks & White Liberals

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