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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

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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.

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0:55 The myth of a secret black language

6:36 The terror of slavery in James

12:13 Essential fictions

15:45 Ground News ad

17:30 Liberal panic over Trump and DOGE

24:10 Is NYC mayor Eric Adams under Trump’s thumb?

26:54 Glenn: What’s wrong with telling illegal migrants to leave?

33:40 ACTA ad

35:54 The differing challenges of European and American immigration

44:08 The significance of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance

52:17 What’s wrong with Ye?

Recorded February 16, 2025

Links and Readings

John’s latest NYT column, “The Truth and the Fiction of Black English”

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye

Allan Gurganus’s novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Francis Burney’s novel, Evelina

R.F. Kuang’s novel, Babel, or, the Necessity of Violence

Gil-Scot Heron’s song, “Whitey on the Moon”

Tucker Carlson interviews Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

John’s book, All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America

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Glenn and John take questions from Substack subscribers in this Q&A episode.

1:02 Pat Rimell presents a list of propositions about general poverty in urban communities

17:54 Samuel D. James asks if John has any writing advice

23:35 Tom Wojciaczyk wants to know if what the difference is between an accent and pronunciation

30:50 Michael asks why we’re not more worried about Trump taking us back to the nuclear brinksmanship of the Cold War

39:03 Karen Dawn Norris offers two defenses of reparations

43:34 Young Törless asks, since we use the term “blackness” so often, if we could come up with a definition of it that would satisfy such disparate figures as Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley, Condoleezza Rice, Raven-Symone, and Iman

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1:10 Which race-conscious programs stay and which go?

11:05 Ground News ad

12:42 Glenn: I’m afraid some African Americans might get left behind

19:25 More programs won’t address the problems of “the underclass”

27:49 John: Maybe this is the best it can be

31:22 The great benefits of HBCUs

35:35 ACTA ad

37:48 Ibram X. Kendi decamps for Howard

44:49 Studying the African diaspora

51:35 The passing of Belle da Costa Greene

1:02:29 Is colorism within the black community still an issue?

Recorded February 2, 2025

Links and Readings

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist

The Woodson Center

James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses

John’s NYT column, “Black and White Weren’t Always as Black-and-White as They Seem”

Hilton Als’s New Yorker piece, “The Hidden Story of J.P. Morgan’s Library”

Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom’s America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible

Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

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1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published

7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing

9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment

17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024

23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets?

31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008

35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists

39:26 Secular backsliding in India

43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive order

Recorded January 25, 2025

Links and Readings

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover”

James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Glenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorship

Glenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality”

Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversation

Rajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment”

Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat”

Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit”

John Cochrane’s review of Late Admissions

Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution

Gyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, Kismet

Rajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice

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In this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference.

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1:08 Intros

4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign

9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings

15:31 Ground News ad

17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy?

23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war

30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold?

33:28 ACTA ad

38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war

48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US?

52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war

56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent?

1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora

1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war?

1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025

Links and Readings

Trailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking History

Matthew’s YouTube show, History Speaks

Airwars

Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report

Yuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza”

Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets”

Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza”

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In this post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.