The Glenn Show

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0:00 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway

4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions …

12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions

19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020

23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right?

29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct

34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct

38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use

43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling

49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down

53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes?

Recorded March 22, 2024

Links and Readings

Charles’s Substack, The Causal Fallacy

Charles’s City Journal piece, “Yes, New York’s Bail Reform Has Increased Crime”

Charles and co-author Elias Neibart’s Manhattan Institute report, “Is Less Always More? The Unintended Consequences of New York State’s Parole Reform”

Glenn’s conversation with Matthew Martens

Matthew Martens’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

Charles and co-author Reihan Salam’s Atlantic piece, “We’re Underfunding the Police”

Tom Wolfe’s book, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Charles’s Substack post, “The Police Unions Puzzle”

Glenn’s conversation with Philip K. Howard

Philip K. Howard’s book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

Charles’s City Journal piece, “Combat the Drug Crisis”

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0:00 A message from Glenn

4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell

9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage

13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground

19:01 The lure of acting

22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater

30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art”

40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis

47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures

1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability

1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020

1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit?

1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker

Recorded April 13, 2024

Links & Reading

Clifton’s Substack, State of the Arts

Thomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line

Thomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey

Cheryl West’s play, Before It Hits Home

Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days

Donald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films

Donald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television

The Great Barrington Declaration

Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism

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0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin

5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy

9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats

17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?

21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex

28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect

35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook

42:04 What you can’t say about war

45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests

55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition

1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy

Recorded March 21, 2024

Links and Readings

Michael’s Substack, Public

University of Austin

Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism

Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The WPATH Files

John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death

Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”

John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”

Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson

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A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.

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0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS

4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts

9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first

13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists

16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior

21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution

27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools

35:19 The redlining debate

40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct

44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb”

46:38 What’s causing low police morale?

50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden

55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse today

Recorded March 30, 2024

Links and Readings

Keith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

Glenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis

Glenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix

Glenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentary

Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One”

Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two”

Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three”

Radley Balko’s response to Coleman Hughes

Alpha News

Rucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments”

John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism”

Equal Justice Initiative website

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Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.

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0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn

4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself

10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”

18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment

24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI

34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?

43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’t

Recorded March 20, 2024

Links and Readings

Amy’s 2021 TGS appearance

Amy’s 2022 TGS appearance

The leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendations

Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles Murray

Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Amy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review

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0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West

3:32 John’s awards show allergy

6:41 The realness of American Fiction

14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision

21:56 The SATs are on their way back

23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.

26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?

38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness

41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?

46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?

51:08 Debating the presidential debates

Recorded March 16, 2024

Links and Readings

American Fiction trailer

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Rustin trailer

Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”

John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”

John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”

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

Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994

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0:00 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice

5:28 Loving the criminal offender

8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of marijuana?

14:59 Christianity and the legal use of force

20:39 Matthew: I cannot enter the public square without considering my faith

24:48 Determining justice in a fallen world

29:35 What’s wrong with criminal justice today?

31:48 The problem of prosecutorial immunity

38:43 Matthew’s take on George Floyd

43:16 Has the criminal justice system truly reformed itself on race matters?

50:00 The denial of bail and the denial of justice

56:37 Matthew: We don’t have quick, accurate, reliable verdicts

1:02:41 Why Matthew opposes the death penalty “as currently practiced in the United States”

1:08:21 How ordinary Americans can help

Recorded February 28, 2024

Links and Readings

Matthew’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

Richard John Neuhaus’s book, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America

Philip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present

National Register of Exonerations

St. Irenaeus’s Against Heresies

Kellen Funk and Sandra Mayson’s Harvard Law Review article, “Bail at the Founding”

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0:00 What makes an “elite”?

4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood

7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption

12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force

17:23 The uses of military discipline

22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman at Yale

24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital

29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police?

35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee

40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding

46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon

52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative”

58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction

Recorded February 19, 2024

Links and Readings

Rob’s memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob’s Substack

Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less”

Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford”

Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class

Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"

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