The Glenn Show

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1:28 John corrects some Wikipedia-driven misconceptions about his work

4:12 ChatGPT pays homage to Glenn and John

6:41 John: JD Vance actually is what I’m merely accused of being

17:59 Ground News ad 20:08 Are there any true sellouts among black conservatives?

28:32 And what is a sellout, anyway?

36:01 What goes on between Clarence and Ginni Thomas?

40:19 An addition to the book club reading list

42:08 ACTA ad

43:54 Remembering Linda Datcher Loury

49:00 Should having children be the norm?

56:34 Glenn sightings in the wild

57:32 Working without a net

Recorded September 23, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s Wikipedia page

John’s Wikipedia page

John’s NYT column, “Why JD Vance Dropped into My Inbox”

JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

Randall Kennedy’s book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A Life

David Lodge’s novel, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses

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

Percival Everett’s novel, James

RF Kuang’s novel, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence

Clint Smith’s Atlantic piece, “George Floyd Was Also a Father”

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0:14 Larry Kotlikoff for President?

5:40 Larry’s plan to save social security

9:30 Reincentivizing work, saving, and staying in the US

14:55 Rewriting the story about income and labor

21:08 Why a 10% tariff could amount to a new national sales tax or worse

23:33 Glenn: Trade with other nations is not a zero-sum game

29:15 Taxing billionaires on consumption rather than income

34:43 The price of shame

38:40 Maintaining competitive conditions with universal health insurance

44:49 What’s causing inflation?

52:26 How big of a problem is the national debt?

Recorded September 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Larry’s Substack

Larry’s homepage

Larry’s book, with Philip Moeller and Paul Solman, Getting What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

Larry’s book, with Scott Burns, The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future

Larry’s book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

Larry’s financial planning program, MaxiFi

Larry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s Economy

Larry’s book, The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans

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Martyn Clark asks how economists factor idiosyncratic, unpredictable human behavior into their abstract modeling. Young Törless asks Glenn to weigh in on the presidential candidates’ approaches to—or avoidance of—the problem of the national debt. BB asks Glenn which economic theories or concepts haven’t stood the test of time. Stan asks what three policies would make the biggest difference in improving the lives of black people. Eli asks if technological progress and our ever-increasing knowledge about the world may end up being a bad thing for humanity. Luke Englund asks if the conservative movement has compromised too much for the sake of Donald Trump. And finally, therealnewyorker asks what issues I would feel compelled to talk about if racial politics disappeared tomorrow.

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0:59 Glenn debuts his new studio

2:34 Life after academia

13:02 The challenge of having a lot of time on your hands

18:10 John’s new musical endeavors

20:20 Ground News ad

22:38 John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

25:07 Glenn and John form an impromptu book club

29:43 The first class of post-Students for Fair Admissions college freshmen

36:22 Are black students being shut out of the upper echelons of American society?

40:33 The Supreme Court’s “indirect beneficial endowment” to HBCUs

46:42 Glenn: “The wheel is turning” on race politics in America

52:18 ACTA ad

54:26 Plagiarism in Robin DiAngelo’s dissertation

57:02 John: I don’t recognize the world that Danzy Senna and Ketanji Brown Jackson describe, even though I lived in it

1:04:07 Did Thomas Chatterton Williams really say what he said to Danzy Senna?

Recorded September 8, 2024

Links and Readings

The Rest Is History on Apple Podcasts

Preorder John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

David Kaiser’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023

David Kaiser discusses his book States of the Union on TGS

Sari Nusseibeh’s memoir, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A Life

Danzy Senna’s novel, Colored Television

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One

John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

Michelle Obama’s DNC speech

Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

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0:59 How Harry met Glenn

3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men?

11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural

18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support

25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed”

31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit all

35:22 Three ways to improve employment prospects

39:10 Glenn asks “the Chicago question”

42:09 Discrimination against ex-convicts

50:38 Immigration’s impact on black employment

53:29 Are too many people in prison?

56:07 Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generate

Recorded August 20, 2024

Links and Readings

Harry and Glenn’s conversation about “racism, narratives, and backlash” with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Harry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, The Black Youth Employment Crisis

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

Isabel V. Sawhill’s book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage

Douglas Harris’s book, Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education

Glenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts”

William Julius Wilson’s book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions

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1:28 John heads back to the linguistic woodshed

3:55 Glenn’s nascent retirement plan

4:23 Glenn and John’s late summer reading

11:58 The “joy” of the Democratic National Convention

17:47 Ground News ad

20:11 The oratorical panache of the Obamas

25:37 John: What’s the point of all this performative joy?

30:16 Keywords from the DNC: “Weird”

34:17 Keywords from the DNC: “Freedom”

41:48 Keywords from the DNC: “Joy”

44:25 Keywords from the DNC: “Fight”

46:03 ACTA ad

47:52 Glenn’s distrust of Kamala’s candidacy

52:42 Why Glenn puts the “Hussein” in “Barack Hussein Obama”

56:04 RFK Jr’s endorsement of Donald Trump

1:04:51 Coming soon: Breakfast with the Lourys

Recorded August 25, 2024

Links and Readings

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

James Baldwin’s essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”

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

Alex Haley’s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Barack Obama’s DNC speech

Michelle Obama’s DNC speech

Oprah Winfrey’s DNC speech

John’s NYT column, “The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works”

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In this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, Glenn and John tackle questions about supporting the Democratic Party, the departure of Columbia University's president, the Gaza War, Kamala Harris's promise to fight "price gouging" and more.

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0:20 Stephanie’s new video series, Faces of X

4:18 Glenn: “You’re taking all the fun out of the culture war”

7:30 Could we have had modernity without capitalism?

17:28 Glenn: You’re taking a side in the debate without admitting it

20:35 What comes after “heterodoxy”?

24:10 Stephanie: Seeing race as a lie may be the greatest reparation of all

32:32 Glenn: Calling race a construction doesn’t get us “past race”

38:23 Race in the next century

42:42 Transcending race without abandoning it

46:20 Awe and humility as spiritual necessities

Recorded August 13, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s previous TGS episode with Stephanie

Find Stephanie on X: @stephlepp

Glenn’s 2016 conversation with Stephanie on Reckonings

Faces of X

Faces of X, “Can We Reframe the Capitalism Debate”

Faces of X, “Can We Reframe the Race Debate”

Glenn’s conversation with Greg Thomas, “A Future for Black Tradition”

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1:05 John: A Kamala Harris presidency won’t improve the discourse on race

9:12 Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama

14:44 Why Glenn just can’t excited about a Harris presidency

18:07 Ground News

20:40 How Kamala measures up to Obama under the spotlight

23:07 Kamala’s code switching

25:50 Building the black political persona

33:51 White Ladies and White Dudes for Kamala

40:39 Are there white Sonya Masseys?

45:55 ACTA

48:03 Walz’s war on “weird”

48:14 The Dems get their hands dirty

55:48 Trump’s near-death experience that wasn’t

Recorded August 9, 2024

Links and Readings

Barack Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Trump’s on-stage interview before the National Association of Black Journalists

NYT story about Trump’s alleged helicopter ride

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My lovely wife LaJuan and I appeared on the Due Dissidence podcast with Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, and we're re-presenting it here. You’ll hear us discuss my memoir and how all of our upbringings influenced our politics, free speech and the Gaza War protests, the decline of the Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Thomas, abortion, economic regulation, capitalism and socialism, Kamala Harris, Trumps’s appearance at the NABJ conference, and more.

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