The Glenn Show

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0:00 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me

6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial?

16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for a confrontation with Ellison?

23:30 Shane’s account of civil decay in Minneapolis

29:24 Shane: The radicals are in charge

35:30 What’s causing the anti-police sentiment in Minneapolis

40:40 Violent crime in the George Floyd Square “autonomous zone”

49:39 Shane: Even liberals need to vote Republican in local Minneapolis elections

54:36 The Fani Willis issue in Georgia

Recorded February 24, 2024

Links and Readings

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

Glenn and John’s episode, “The Fall of Minneapolis Reconsidered”

Radley Balko’s response to Glenn, John, and Coleman Hughes

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

Shane’s website

Shane’s Alpha News piece on the community meeting about the new Minneapolis Third Precinct location

Crime Watch Minneapolis’s X page

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

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0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy

3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society

10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status

18:29 Why Corey supports the police

21:47 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago

23:25 The Rooftop Pastor

25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism

29:56 Project HOOD

33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools

37:02 Class differences within the black community

Recorded January 31, 2024

Links and Readings

New Beginnings Church

Project HOOD

Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”

Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange

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0:00 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics

7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era

9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative

12:48 The two sides of black “progress”

17:24 Shermichael: Identity matters, even for conservatives

21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration

28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency

32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?

37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump

40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse

50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn

56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days

58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn

Recorded January 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)

Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired

Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse

Hit Strategies

American Cornerstone Institute

The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts

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0:00 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue?

7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John

17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin?

19:55 Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?

25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics

28:26 The problem with colorblindness

36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”

43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around

52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

Recorded February 11, 2024

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”

Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis

Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix

Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

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

Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”

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

The trailer for Rustin

Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”

A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

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0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses

4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine

9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test

12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem

18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”

21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir

25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling

27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now

30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets

42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree

46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists

49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates

51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings

56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success

Recorded January 26, 2024

Links and Readings

Noam Dworman’s TGS appearance

Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table

Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table

Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis

Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table

Benny Morris on Live from the Table

Tara Henley’s Lean Out

Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom

Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report

University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression

Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin

Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict

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

Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”

Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”

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0:00 Why Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel

5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve

8:49 Loyalty among friends during the Gaza War

13:15 The blowback from Brown’s ceasefire letter

17:18 Talking about Israel across the ideological spectrum

19:42 Glenn: Loyalty tests are unreasonable

23:16 Trying to understand the human costs of war

26:26 Glenn: There is no decent alternative to a two-state solution

33:32 “Apartheid,” “genocide,” and other potentially unhelpful terms

39:29 Noam: Thank God for President Biden

44:13 Why Noam is worried about American attitudes toward Israel

49:08 Will the Gaza War end up strengthening Hamas?

56:08 The tone-deafness of some supporters of Israel

Recorded January 31, 2023

Links and Readings

Noam’s podcast, Live from the Table

The Glenn Show Live at the Comedy Cellar

Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar

Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray

The Brown University faculty’s ceasefire letter

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

Glenn’s most recent conversation with Robert Wright

Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Aaron Maté’s appearance on Noam’s podcast

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0:00 John: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin

6:50 Has DEI taken a hit after the Gay controversy?

13:50 When “DEI” really means “racial preferences”

22:12 The case of Neri Oxman

23:52 John: Bill Ackman looks “absurd”

26:47 Three cheers for John’s dinosaurs

28:22 Is Glenn really a “black conservative”?

31:11 The three dimensions of black conservatism

37:50 Black elites and immigration

42:35 Ibram X. Kendi undeterred

44:48 Roland Fryer is still standing

46:48 Is Amy Wax getting railroaded by Penn?

Recorded January 27, 2024

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “We Need a New Word for ‘Plagiarism’”

Elon Musk’s DEI airline post on X

Neri Oxman’s CV

Adolph Reed’s essay, “‘What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?’: The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual” (originally published in the Village Voice, April 11, 1995)

Wilfred Reilly’s comparative IQ post on X

Recording of Amy Wax’s FIRE webinar

Glenn’s December 2021 episode with Amy Wax

Glenn’s August 2022 episode with Amy Wax

Charles Murray’s book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Race, Gender, and Class

Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray

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0:00 The many, many books of David Kaiser

3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard

6:09 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard

10:03 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism

12:35 Intellectuals in the wild

14:28 How James Bryant Conant built the modern Harvard …

17:33 … and how it was broken

18:52 Glenn’s previous conversation with Omer Bartov

24:12 Why David thinks the Gaza War falls short of genocide but maybe not ethnic cleansing

25:51 What Claudine Gay could (and maybe should) have said at her congressional hearing

27:51 Why David thinks originalists will have a problem rejecting attempts to remove Trump from electoral ballots

32:38 David: Mitch McConnell should have impeached Trump when he had the chance

36:07 David’s new book, States of the Union

41:03 Have state of the union addresses always been as boring as they are now?

44:55 Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, and their legacies

57:37 Why Obama didn’t propose a New New Deal after the 2008 financial crisis

1:01:01 Biden’s silence

Recorded January 10, 2024

Links and Readings

David’s book, Economic Diplomacy and the Origin of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939

David’s book, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler

David’s book, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War

David’s book, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

David’s book, Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017

David’s book, NFL 1965: The Most Exciting Season

David’s book, A Life in History

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

Glenn’s previous conversation with David

Fareed Zakaria on elite universities

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

David’s blog, History Unfolding

David’s blog post about the Fourteenth Amendment

Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States

John F. Kennedy’s June 11, 1963 address on segregation

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If you missed Wednesday’s City Journal and Manhattan Institute-hosted livestream, I’ve got you covered. Today I’m releasing the recording of that livestream as a special bonus episode. This event marked the publication of my City Journal essay “Clarence Thomas and Me,” and I had a stellar line-up alongside me to discuss the essay and the work of Clarence Thomas: Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute, Robert George of Princeton, and Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School.

0:00 Introductions

2:58 Why Glenn wrote “Clarence Thomas and Me”

5:27 Randall: “Justice Thomas trades on his blackness”

10:58 Glenn: Clarence Thomas has not “betrayed black people”

12:30 Thomas’s engagement with natural law jurisprudence

19:29 How would Thomas have come down on Brown v. Board of Education?

20:55 The loyalty trap

24:20 Randall: Thomas’s originalism may also commit him to sanctioning segregation

28:24 Robbie: There are originalist interpretations that support Brown v. Board of Education

34:07 Thomas’s race cases

36:03 Glenn: Thomas can act as both a principled jurist and as an advocate for the rights of African Americans

40:56 Randall: In 100 years, people will regard Shelby County v. Holder as one of the worst decisions in the Court’s history

44:36 Maintaining integrity under pressure

51:22 What are the differences between Thomas’s, Scalia’s, and Alito’s originalisms?

55:30 Will Thomas have broader popularity in the future?

1:01:10 Is racial solidarity inconsistent with judicial impartiality?

1:03:30 Closing remarks

Recorded January 17, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Clarence Thomas and Me”

Glenn’s book, One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America

Michael McConnell’s article, “The Originalist Case for Brown v. Board of Education”

Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick’s book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

Lon Fuller’s book, The Morality of Law

The documentary on Clarence Thomas, Created Equal

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0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now)

8:59 A ringing endorsement from John

10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024?

15:28 Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character”

16:20 What would King have thought of Claudine Gay?

20:20 King’s radicalism

25:54 John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist

28:10 The Tabia Lee affair at D’Anza Community College

29:58 How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal

32:47 Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”

35:57 How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up

41:41 John’s upcoming cabaret show

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “Claudine Gay Was Not Driven Out Because She Is Black”

Glenn’s conversation with Tabia Lee

“All’s Fair in Love and War” from Gold Diggers of 1937

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