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0:36 How Rajiv saw Trump’s assault on elite higher ed coming

4:26 The Trump administration’s legitimate complaints against higher ed

9:41 Rajiv: The crackdown on campus protest would have happened even without the October 7 protest

17:10 How test scores can marry merit and diversity on college campuses

21:06 Glenn: Doesn’t SFFA v. Harvard justify JD Vance’s criticisms of higher ed?

25:30 Columbia’s capitulation to the Trump administration

33:06 Columbia’s new measures against antisemitism

38:09 The opportunistic adoption of contested phrases

43:27 How bad is the antisemitism problem at Barnard and Columbia?

50:44 Who has the authority to police Columbia’s MESAAS scholars?

1:00:55 Facing the prospect of Trump-generated American brain drain

Recorded March 23, 2025

Links and Readings

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv’s post April 2024 post, “Minority Report”

FIRE’s 2024 Faculty Survey

Rajiv’s post, “The Lion Hath Roared”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “Working Definition of Antisemitism”

Eli Lake’s X post questioning the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Preorder Glenn’s book, Self-Censorship

Noam Dworman moderates a debate between Eli Lake and Norman Finkelstein

Lex Friedman hosts a debate between Norman Finkelstein, Mouin Rabbani, Benny Morris, and Destiny

Dworman interviews Rashid Khalidi

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Mari Matsuda’s Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment

Killer Mike’s 2024 FIRE keynote

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I spent part of last week visiting Stanford University, and John is off taking care of business in Australia. The time difference, travel, and speaking obligations made scheduling a recording impossible. So this week, I’ve got something a little different for you. Instead of recording a conversation on the day’s news with John, I decided to record one on my own. In this episode, I talk through some opinion pieces that grabbed my attention and give my take on the topics. I address Trump and the economy, Trump’s predictability and unpredictability, DOGE and MAGA’s slashing of the federal government, Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, antisemitism, and attacks on Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging stations. This is a bit of an experiment—my team and I wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a shot. Let me know how it’s working for you in the comments.

These pieces are all quite relevant as of this posting, on Monday afternoon. But by Friday? Who knows. So I decided to release this episode simultaneously to both free and full subscribers. If you like getting The Glenn Show a few days early, consider becoming a full subscriber. You’ll get new episodes early, plus access to monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, bonus episodes, and other exclusive content.

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2:31 The opportunities and risks of Trump's economic plans

6:50 Is Trump as unpredictable as he seems?

16:00 DOGE and MAGA take a chainsaw to the federal government

22:30 An argument against Mahmoud Khalil's detention ...

32:49 ... and one in favor of Khalil's detention

41:38 Is it time for an official ban on antisemitism?

49:14 Teslas are burning

Recorded March 14, 2025

Links and Readings

Steve Cortes’s RCP piece, “Trump and the Economy: Opportunities and Risks”

Susan Glasser’s New Yorker piece, “Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us What He’s Going to Do?”

Tim Murtaugh’s Washington Times piece, “Why the Democrat Brand Is in the Toilet”

Jeff Mayhugh’s Hill piece, “The MAGA Revolution Is Playing with Fire”

Ross Barkan’s NYMag piece, “Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Will Backfire on Trump”

Josh Hammer’s Daily Signal piece, “Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty”

Mackenzie France’s RCP piece, “Congress Should Pass Antisemitism Awareness Act”

Rich Lowry’s New York Post piece, “Tesla Terrorism Only Reveals the Left’s Impotence”

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0:00 Intro

1:33 The relationships Peter has lost and gained

4:14 Why Peter thinks this is a “watershed” moment in Jewish history

6:50 Who can criticize Israel?

9:44 The challenge of October 7’s aftermath to Jewish self-understanding

15:54 Peter: Jews should support non-violent Palestinian protest, not criminalize it

20:12 Shouldn’t the Palestinians have taken the deals they were offered?

25:48 Peter’s argument for a one-state solution

34:34 The “dirty little secret” of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Jewish critics

37:12 The idolatry of the Jewish state

39:45 The mutual liberation of Jews and Palestinians

41:37 Why aren’t the critics of snowflakes and trigger warnings defending pro-Palestinian campus protesters?

46:01 Peter: Antisemitism is on the rise, and ethno-nationalism is the reason

50:20 Peter: If Gaza is unlivable, then Gazans should be allowed to live where they want

Recorded February 21, 2025

Links and Readings

Peter’s Substack, The Beinart Notebook

Jewish Currents magazine

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Eitan Hersh and Laura Loyden’s article, “Antisemitic Attitudes across the Ideological Spectrum”

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In this episode, Nikita, Mark, and I talk about steelmanning, what people want me to say about Gaza, what I want to say about Gaza, and why I offer disclaimers when I talk foreign policy.

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0:00 Intro

1:55 Did Trump and Vance bully Zelenskyy or give him a dose of reality?

5:16 Glenn: Trump is trying to wind down an unnecessary war

13:49 - Ground News ad

28:58 The “deep game” of European security

32:06 Glenn: America First appeals to me, World War III doesn’t

36:40 Teaching the reparations debate in a post-October 7 world

43:06 MSNBC axes Joy Reid’s show

Recorded March 1, 2025

Links and Readings

Trump and Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting

Tucker Carlson’s onstage interview with Hungarian president Victor Orbán

The latest episode of Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast, America This Week

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”

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In this month's Substack subscriber Q&A, John and I answer your questions on the NAACP, Trump and January 6, Western civilization, how we deal with angry viewers, and more.

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In this bonus episode, Mark, Nikita, and I discuss Trump's chaotic Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, parsing positions from principles, and the fate of Ukraine.

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Today I'm posting a bonus episode of the Glenn Show with University of Pennsylvania Law professor Amy Wax. Unfortunately, Amy experienced some recording difficulties, which resulted in an episode that does not meet our usual standards for audio fidelity and clarity. Rather than post it here in the podcast feed, we've opted to post only the video with subtitles under Amy's side of the conversation. You can find that video right now by going to glennloury.substack.com

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0:00 A note on audio quality

1:08 Glenn: I may not agree with Amy about everything, but I defend her right to speak her mind

4:17 Amy: What’s wrong with Trump evaluating how federal research money is spent?

12:54 The accusations against Amy

19:17 Did Amy violate students’ privacy?

21:44 What it’s not okay to say at Penn

31:52 Amy’s lawsuit against Penn

36:21 Glenn: Aren’t your free speech claims and you civil rights claims contradictory?

38:33 Amy: This is bigger than me

42:11 Can university research infrastructure survive defunding under Trump?

48:32 Glenn: I’m unnerved by the implications of the anti-DEI movement

Recorded February 17, 2025

Links and Readings

The Harvard Salient magazine

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1:00 Conn’s career in the conservative movement

4:34 The four sexual revolutions

14:17 What about feminism and LGBTQ rights?

20:25 Conn: “We spend over a trillion dollars a year on means-tested programs that punish marriage”

24:30 How online gambling is hurting working-class men

29:02 What are the benefits of marriage?

34:03 Why Conn thinks single-parenthood disproportionately harms boys

37:12 The link between political and domestic structures

44:49 Will Trump enact policies that promote marriage?

48:42 Conn: We should strengthen obscenity laws in order to restrain online porn

55:52 The conservative case for birthright citizenship

Recorded February 11, 2025

Links and Readings

Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy

David Blankenhorn’s book, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese’s report on pornography

Conn’s Washington Examiner piece, “The Conservative Case for Birthright Citizenship”

George Borjas’s books on labor and immigration

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In this bonus episode, Glenn, Nikita, and Mark discuss Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's alleged "Nazi salutes," whether Trump is serious about Canada and Greenland, and what counts as a serious question.