0:00 The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness  10:47 Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion?  21:08 Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems  28:02 How Ian experienced his own cancelation  41:31 America’s exportation of wokeness  45:45 Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit?  52:54 John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives Recorded August 7, 2023 Links and Readings Ian’s Harper’s piece, “Doing the Work” John’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America Jian Ghomeshi’s 2018 NYRB piece, “Reflections from a Hashtag” Tomiwa Owolade’s book, This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter David Brooks’s NYT oped, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” John’s NYT oped, “One Sentence Does Not Define a Curriculum” The Florida Board of Education’s 2023 standards for social studies Robert Cherry’s essay on slavery at this newsletter 

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John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness

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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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John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – Compulsory Racial Performance

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 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway 4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions … 12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions 19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020 23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right? 29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct 34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct 38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use 43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling 49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down 53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes? Recorded March 22, 2024 Links and Readings Charles’s Substack, The Causal Fallacy Charles’s City Journal piece, “Yes, New York’s Bail Reform Has Increased Crime” Charles and co-author Elias Neibart’s Manhattan Institute report, “Is Less Always More? The Unintended Consequences of New York State’s Parole Reform” Glenn’s conversation with Matthew Martens Matthew Martens’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal Charles and co-author Reihan Salam’s Atlantic piece, “We’re Underfunding the Police” Tom Wolfe’s book, The Bonfire of the Vanities Charles’s Substack post, “The Police Unions Puzzle” Glenn’s conversation with Philip K. Howard Philip K. Howard’s book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions Charles’s City Journal piece, “Combat the Drug Crisis”  

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Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis

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 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater 30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art” 40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis 47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures 1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability 1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020 1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit? 1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker Recorded April 13, 2024 Links & Reading Clifton’s Substack, State of the Arts Thomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line Thomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey Cheryl West’s play, Before It Hits Home Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days Donald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films Donald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television The Great Barrington Declaration Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism 

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John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater

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 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin 5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy 9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats 17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech? 21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex 28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect 35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook 42:04 What you can’t say about war 45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests 55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition 1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy Recorded March 21, 2024 Links and Readings Michael’s Substack, Public University of Austin Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium The WPATH Files John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism” John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment” Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson 

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Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex

A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.  

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John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness

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