The Glenn Show

0:00 Why the different format?

4:04 Joe asks John to account for his “emotional and irrational conclusions” about Trump and his recent conviction

15:28 Ground News ad

17:49 Did John really mean it when he implied he hoped someone would assassinate Trump?

23:00 Lauren wants John to justify his “casual endorsement” of gender fluidity in pronoun usage

32:37 Jerry asks why “external factors” like poverty are often used to explain lagging African American scholastic performance, those factors haven’t hindered them from achieving wildly disproportionate success in the cultural realm

38:34 Patrick calls out Glenn for his frequent use of the word “irregardless”

41:26 kgweiland asks Glenn if the Pamela Foster story in my memoir was “yours to share”

46:17 Scott Alex has some technical questions about linguistics for John

50:01 Jakon Joi asks for advice dealing with the tragic, possibly racially motivated murder of her father

Recorded June 23, 2024

Links and Readings

June 2024 thread of subscriber questions

John talking about Trump voters on Real Time in 2023

Daniel Bessner and Glenn on Real Time in 2023

Richard Dawkins interviews John

John’s book, The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

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0:00 Glenn II returns to The Glenn Show

2:17 Glenn II: Dad, you’re not really a “conservative” in the present-day sense of the term

13:20 Glenn and Glenn II agree that the “systemic racism” argument is overblown but disagree over what to do about it

22:04 What social conditions lead to the kind of behavior Glenn often condemns?

31:36 The luck and privilege that allowed Glenn to recover from his mistakes

39:19 Glenn II: “I found myself getting angry at someone who doesn’t exist anymore”

46:59 The conversation Glenn never had with his father

51:06 What Late Admissions taught Glenn II about his father

57:32 Grace in the face of public scandal

1:01:28 Love, death, and the Lourys

Recorded June 15, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Scenes from The Wire, Season 4

Glenn and Glenn II’s September 2018 Bloggingheads conversation

Glenn II’s book, Invisible Funerals: A Tale of Nine Burials

Glenn II’s book, Love Letters & Elegies: Tales from Beyond the Pale

Glenn II’s book, What Death Can Touch

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0:00 Glenn and John’s summer plans

3:56 Glenn’s forthcoming book on self-censorship

9:53 John’s forthcoming book on pronouns

17:25 Ground News ad

19:45 Inside the audiobook recording process

21:13 Why John isn’t celebrating Trump’s conviction

27:34 What’s so “monstrous” about Trump?

32:17 Is Trump demonizing immigrants or proposing sensible border regulation?

39:17 Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center

44:42 Does Kendi’s fall mark the end of the woke moment?

49:15 The willful incomprehension directed at Byron Donalds

55:11 Joe Biden’s outdated speech at Morehouse

Recorded June 8, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s 1994 essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Henry Frankfurt’s book, On B******t

Glenn and John’s conversation with Mark Goldblatt

Rachel Poser’s New York Times Magazine piece, “Ibram X. Kendi Faces a Reckoning of His Own”

Herbert Guttman’s book, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Joe Biden’s commencement address at Morehouse

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0:00 How Josh got Glenn started in podcasting

3:05 Early career advice to Glenn: Don’t be an a*****e

6:30 A recent loss in Josh’s life

8:36 Did Trump’s prosecution and conviction set a dangerous precedent?

15:37 Biden’s uninspiring presidential campaign

19:38 Josh: Trump is “an enemy of and a threat to … fundamental political values”

23:22 The problem of the meritocracy

28:54 The “shame” Glenn felt after his speech at a synagogue

39:19 The things left unsaid about the Gaza War

47:22 Were Glenn’s fears about reaction to his thoughts about Gaza overblown?

51:23 Can mistaken ad hominem inferences about audiences initiate self-censorship on the part of speakers?

55:55 When Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salaam when to Berkeley

1:00:58 Josh: Campus protests have basically been a good thing

1:09:33 Josh’s thoughts on what John Rawls might have said about the State of Israel

Recorded June 1, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s writing for Boston Review

Glenn and Josh’s first Bloggingheads conversation

Michael Lind’s UnHerd piece, “Trump’s Conviction Is an Assault on Democracy”

Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit

Michael Sandel’s Boston Review piece, “How Markets Crowd Out Morals”

Michael Sandel discusses The Tyranny of Merit on TGS

Glenn’s Substack post, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Glenn’s 1994 essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Glenn’s Palm Beach Synagogue speech, “What Has Become of the Partnership between Black and Jews”

John Mearsheimer on TGS

Omer Bartov on TGS

Reihan Salam’s book, Melting Pot or Civil War?

The Kalven Committee Report

John Rawls’s book, A Theory of Justice

John Rawls’s book, The Law of Peoples

Josh’s essay, “Is There a Human Right to Democracy?”

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After a two-month hiatus, John and I are back for a Q&A session. This time around, as an experiment, we asked subscribers to submit non-political questions. Let’s see what you came up with.

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0:00 A message from Glenn

1:14 Unsettling the “Settled Questions,” Glenn Loury & John McWhorter

2:59 The Race and IQ Question, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter

12:19 Facing Reality, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray

21:40 The IQ Taboo, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax

31:08 Debate with an Embattled Racial Realist, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax

45:44 The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality, Glenn Loury

48:21 The Dangers of Research into Race & IQ, Glenn Loury & Lex Fridman

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0:00 Intro

2:50 “I got arrested driving a stolen car ...”

9:27 The Regal Auntie Eloise and the Bug-Eyed Uncle Moonie

23:17 “There was a lot of pain that the blood of Jesus was invoked to cover ...”

39:38 Winners & Losers

50:31 Words I Think of When Remembering My Mother

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0:00 The end of a tumultuous semester

4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests

9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine?

16:40 Ground News ad

18:41 Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?

22:32 Should students be forced to listen to protests that might offend them?

35:11 Glenn’s book is out this week!

41:11 An update on Glenn’s recovery and hospital cuisine

Recorded May 11, 2024

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice”

John’s NYT piece, “The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did”

John’s NYT piece, “Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?”

Coleman Hughes and Robert Wright debate Israel-Palestine

Pamela Paul’s NYT piece on Glenn, “He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.”

WSJ’s review of Late Admissions

Tunku Varadarajan’s 2020 WSJ profile of Glenn

WaPo’s review of Late Admissions

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0:00: Intro from Glenn

2:15: Cops and Race - May 29, 2020

10:09: The Viruses - June 9, 2020

16:39: A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation - June 3, 2020

21:14: The Slippery Slope to Hell - April 23, 2021

27:10: What Made George Floyd? - June 23, 2022

34:21: The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality - April 18, 2022

41:38: The Truth about George Floyd's Death - December 4, 2023

55:51: Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - December 18, 2023

1:10:29: What the Controversial George Floyd Doc Didn't Show Us - February 16, 2024

1:24:13: Minneapolis after George Floyd - March 1, 2024

1:27:34: Prosecuting Derek Chauvin - April 5, 2024

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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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