The Glenn Show

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1:32 Glenn's intro

3:10 Glenn's case against the Democrats

14:06 Why is Cornel West running for president?

18:58 A black, conservative defense of Trumpism

25:29 A leftist analysis of Trump's rising popularity among black men

30:45 Glenn's early call for Biden to step down

36:25 Trump's debate style

41:36 Glenn: Biden is a "singularly uninspiring" political figure

49:11 The presidential debate post-mortem

55:45 The “DEI” candidates

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1:08 John’s work with Braver Angels

8:16 How Braver Angels gets its business done

13:09 Trying to bridge the partisan divide

20:27 Do some issues require taking sides?

27:37 Braver Angels's approach to the immigration issue

31:37 John: “Trump is more symptom than cause”

38:47 Are some political conflicts unavoidable?

41:38 John: “What we need in America is a ... spiritual transformation in our attitudes toward one another”

50:30 Braver Angels's American Hope Campaign

Recorded on July 25, 2025

Links and Readings

Glenn’s 2020 conversation with John

Braver Angels

A Braver Way podcast

Eliza Taylor Hawkins’s report, “Depolarizing During the Pandemic”

Braver Angels’s Trustworthy Elections Report

John’s speech before Braver Angels’s 2023 National Convention

Thomas Sowell’s book, Black Rednecks & White Liberals

Braver Angels’s American Hope Campaign

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John and Glenn are back for the latest Q&A session, where they take questions asked by Substack subscribers. Topics include antisemitism, Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Kamala Harris's entry into same, and dinosaurs.

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In this excerpt from the Memoir Tapes—recordings that served as the basis for Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative—Glenn describes the baroque procedures he would use in order to buy and cook crack.

2:19 John apologizes for his previous statement about Trump and assassination, and Glenn reaffirms their friendship

7:21 Glenn: “We literally dodged a bullet”

9:09 John: Going MAGA is taking the easy political route

11:06 Glenn: There are good reasons to support some of Trump’s policies, if not his rhetoric

18:57 Does the 2024 election have a “summer of 2020” vibe?

23:38 Ground News ad

25:58 The fantasy Kamala Harris / Corey Booker ticket

33:27 Is “Make America Nice Again” a compelling campaign message?

38:22 Is “Trump is a threat to democracy” a lexically inept slogan?

45:53 It’s time for Biden to step down

49:50 John: “I'm honestly glad the assassin missed”

54:49 Do Glenn and John need couples counseling?

Recorded July 20, 2024

Links and Readings

Andrew Napolitano’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

Andrew Napolitano conversation with Jeffrey Sachs

Evan Vucci’s iconic post-assassination attempt photo of Trump and Secret Service agents

John’s NYT column, “Why Are Democrats Speaking to America in Ancient Greek?”

George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language”

Larry Kotlikoff’s Substack post, “Biden Must Step Aside—This Week!”

Yascha Mounk’s Substack, Persuasion

Glenn’s conversation with Yasha Mounk

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Glenn and the team discuss the use of independent podcasts as platforms for world leaders and the use and misuse of AI translations and voice simulations.

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2:29 Have we already forgotten the horror of October 7?

9:22 Ben: We can’t ignore the loss of innocent life in Gaza

13:58 “From the river to the sea” and “all lives matter”

22:00 Celebrating the deaths of Israelis

26:31 Drawing the line at BDS

33:05 Glenn: If you want free speech, prepare to be uncomfortable

37:44 Columbia University administrators put on leave after allegedly antisemitic text messages

41:41 How Glenn discovered Benjamin’s work

47:40 The social meaning of race

51:01 The invitation to empathy in Late Admissions

59:02 Benjamin’s work with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

Recorded July 10, 2024

Links and Readings

Benjamin’s book, Juror’s Stories of Death: How America’s Death Penalty Invests in Inequality

Benjamin’s book, Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

Benjamin’s book, Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Erving Goffman’s book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Erving Goffman’s book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Robert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Glenn’s conversation with his son, Glenn Loury II

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Student

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1:18 John: Biden probably should not be running for president

7:47 Who’s running the country?

11:17 Presidential b******t

13:35 Ground News ad

15:56 Is Kamala up to the big job?

22:44 Kamala’s questionable climb to the top

27:53 The NYT Editorial Board’s surprising call for Biden to drop out

33:50 Trump at Gettysburg

35:45 Trump’s victory is now more probable. But is it more defensible?

40:42 Interrogating the “elitist backlash” interpretation of Trumpism

45:43 How should Dems proceed in a post-Biden election?Recorded July 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Full video of the Trump-Biden debate

Harry G. Frankfurter’s book, On B******t

Clip from Adam McKay’s film, Vice

Kamala Harris attacks Biden during a 2019 primary debate

Kamala Harris defends Biden’s recent debate performance

NYT Editorial Board calls on Biden to leave the race

Jill Biden’s Vogue cover

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0:00 Intro

1:28 Biden’s abysmal debate performance

5:01 Billionaire survivalists

12:53 So you made it to your luxury bunker. Now what?

16:22 The postapocalyptic war of all against all

21:29 Is the very existence of billionaires the real doomsday scenario?

26:20 The doomsday tax

32:24 Will the bunker dwellers have a reason to live?

40:39 The problem of government after nuclear holocaust

46:08 The literal bunker mentality

52:08 Was Mark responsible for Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall? Who can say for sure?

Recorded June 28, 2024

Links and Readings

Evan Osnos’s 2017 New Yorker piece, “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich”

Douglas Rushkoff’s book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Douglas Rushkoff’s Guardian piece, “The Super-Rich ‘Preppers’ Planning to Save Themselves from the Apocalypse”

Ingrid Schmidt’s Hollywood Reporter piece, “Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers with Fiery Moats and Water Cannons”

Andre Mayer’s CBC News piece, “From Luxury Bunkers to Tactical Vehicles, the Ultra-Rich Are Preparing for the Big One”

Cixin Liu’s trilogy of sci-fi novels, The Three Body Problem

Everybody Loves Raymond complete series DVD box set

Louis van Gasteren’s documentary, Now Do You Get Why I Am Crying?

Paul Celan’s Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner

Tadeusz Borowski’s book, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman

Glenn, Nikita, and Mark’s previous conversation, “The Ethics of Giving in the Very Long Term”

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0:00 Great writing is “a marriage of life and honesty”

3:20 Glenn: I am my book’s primary audience

8:00 Glenn the Rationalist vs Glenn the Believer

18:00 How much did Glenn’s socio-economic status affect his sense of black belonging?

24:26 The radical rhetoric of privileged African Americans

29:38 Against reparations

33:57 A raised fist, but not a hand out

40:27 Colorblindness in theory and practice

50:11 Is race orthodoxy the first step on the road to totalitarianism?

1:03:01 Self-reliance and individualism

Recorded June 26, 2024

Links and Readings

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

Jennifer and Winkfield’s book, Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race

Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins’s book, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party

Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker’s cookbook, Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

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

Sheena Michele Mason’s forthcoming book, The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Winkfield and Jennifer’s conversation with Angel Eduardo

Free Black Thought

Václav Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”

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