The Glenn Show

0:00 The long road leading to the Gaza War

9:14 Don’t Palestinians have some responsibility for the current state of affairs?

9:48 The precedent of the 1973 Yom Kippur War

11:26 Omer: Israel only negotiates under pressure

13:31 Netanyahu and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

15:27 The US’s military support for Israel

16:32 The origins of Hamas

20:20 Omer: Netanyahu’s coalition is “a mirror image of Hamas”

24:45 The threat to democracy in Israel

26:27 Omer: Netanyahu is driving the country to the right in order to avoid a corruption trial

30:07 How “Jewish supremacists” have gained control of Israel’s government

34:01 Why Omer’s Zionism does not commit him to defending Israel’s actions

36:46 The risk of genocide in Gaza

40:05 The IDF’s procedure in the Gaza invasion

43:09 What will happen to the Gazan refugees?

45:00 The international community’s role in finding a resolution to the Gaza War

48:17 Is the IDF “the most moral army in the world”?

54:39 The revenge motive

57:07 Omer: The campaign in Gaza is a fiasco

59:38 A US-led plan for “the day after”

1:04:37 Is peace in Israel a pollyannaish pipe dream?

Recorded January 2, 2023

Links and Readings

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

Omer’s New Statesman piece, “Both Netanyahu and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity”

Hamas’s 1988 charter

Omer’s NYT op-ed, “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide”

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I had planned to release the first Glenn and John episode of 2024 on New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and John and I could not record as scheduled. So instead, my staff put together this collection of some of our favorite clips from 2023. John and I covered a lot of ground last year. Here you’ll see us addressing African American performance on standardized tests, the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision, the riots of 2020, the Gaza War, and other big topics on the show.

0:00 A New Year's message from Glenn

2:36 How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else?

11:15 Glenn goes in on the 2020 riots

16:34 John: I love linguistics, but linguistics no longer loves me

25:37 Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment?

34:58 When the smoke clears in Gaza

45:34 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death

54:32 Glenn and John revisit their first conversation

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0:00 Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery

2:26 Philip’s skepticism toward the role of lawyers in the US

4:34 What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC?

6:59 How to ensure worker safety without “4,000 rules”

8:07 Why the US spends so much on healthcare

11:32 Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust

14:58 The origins of American distrust

18:42 Re-instilling trust

21:38 The problems of national security and public health

26:57 Are public employee unions constitutional?

39:35 Market constraints don’t hold for government employees

34:55 Do public sector workers need protection from exploitation?

39:22 Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates”

40:58 A short history of the civil service

46:49 Is Philip inveighing against the Democratic Party and the labor movement at large?

53:12 Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too

56:08 The necessity of a constitutional solution to public unions

1:00:58 Philip: The political organizing of public unions harms the public

1:04:46 Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case?

Recorded October 27, 2023

Links and Readings

Philip’s book, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Philip’s book, Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America

Philip’s latest book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

Edward Banfield’s book, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

Robert Putnam’s book, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Philip’s forthcoming book, Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

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0:00 How Liz and JC came to collaborate on their doc, The Fall of Minneapolis

4:18 JC: No, the footage in the doc is not AI-manipulated

6:08 How much of the body cam footage is previously unseen?

8:18 Who lied about George Floyd, what did they lie about, and why?

13:30 The relevance of Floyd’s behavior during the incident

17:30 JC: Minneapolis Chief of Police Arradondo perjured himself

22:30 Minnesota DA Keith Ellison’s email to Glenn

24:11 The expert testimony from Dr. Martin Tobin on Floyd’s cause of death

26:12 Adjudicating disputes about the cause of death

34:36 Were racial justice tropes part of the Floyd incident?

38:20 Why Liz and JC think Derek Chauvin didn’t get a fair trial

41:28 Why JC didn’t include the entire viral video of Floyd in the doc

44:30 What Chauvin told JC about the incident

47:40 Humanizing the Minnesota police

50:41 The aftermath of the Minneapolis riots

55:32 The lawsuits that followed the Floyd family’s settlement

56:34 The drugs that “complicated” Floyd’s restraint

Recorded December 16, 2023.

Links and Readings

Glenn and John’s episode about The Fall of Minneapolis

Liz and JC’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

Liz’s book, They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd

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As you may be aware, YouTube restricted this week’s episode of The Glenn Show to viewers 18 and older. My team and I determined that the reason for this restriction was the inclusion of footage and imagery taken from the scene of George Floyd’s death. I want as many people to see this conversation as possible, and an age restriction has the potential to severely limit the video’s reach. So we decided to re-edit the video and remove the footage and imagery that led to the restriction, and then re-upload it. The conversation itself remains intact—only the visual elements have changed.

However, I found it unacceptable to simply capitulate to what I believe to be an incorrect decision on YouTube’s part. Accordingly, I’ve made the version of the video I originally intended to release available here on Substack. This isn’t the first time The Glenn Show has been penalized by YouTube, and I doubt it will be the last. Rest assured that, no matter what happens, I’ll find a way to get my show—uncompromised and unfiltered—out to you.

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0:00 Tabia’s early career as a teacher

5:40 Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director

17:06 The antisemitism problem at De Anza

25:25 The inescapable BIPOC binary

28:52 From disagreement to deplatforming

35:30 Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty

39:00 How attempts to silence Tabia backfired

40:54 Tabia’s broad vision of diversity

47:46 Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee

Recorded November 27, 2023

Links and Readings

Tabia’s New York Post piece, “I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism”

Tabia’s Compact piece, “A Black DEI Director Canceled by DEI”

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Do No Harm Medicine

Coalition for Empowered Education

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0:00 A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions

5:42 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death

14:27 The price of a “poetic truth”

20:09 Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict?

23:26 Glenn: George Floyd was no hero

29:03 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct

34:54 Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative?

41:48 Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America?

Recorded December 2, 2023

Links and Readings

Glenn and John’s May 2020 episode, “Cops and Race”

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

Eli and Shelby Steele’s documentary, What Killed Michael Brown?

Barbershop, “OJ did it”

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

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Glenn and John answer Substack subscriber questions from November 2023.

0:00 Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”?

13:34 Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought

15:07 Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee

22:47 Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec

30:38 How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community

36:16 Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college

45:19 What is rhetoric, anyway?

Recorded November 13, 2023

Links and Readings

Erec’s nonprofit, Free Black Thought

Journal of Free Black Thought

Free Black Thought’s podcast

Minnesota’s Take Charge program

The Hidden Genius Project

Glenn’s essay in the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Wrestle Not against Flesh and Blood”

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0:00 The state of campus speech after 10/7

5:48 Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel?

15:43 “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas

26:17 Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics

29:31 The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams

38:17 The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea”

43:41 The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding

47:49 If not liberalism, then what?

53:51 Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart

Recorded November 18, 2023

Links and Readings

Daniel’s podcast, American Prestige

Glenn’s conversation with Yascha Mounk (recorded October 3, 2023)

Adam Shatz’s book, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Lisa Stampnitzky’s book, Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism”

Daniel’s essay in the Nation, “A Bad Breakup”

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s book, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Daniel’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”

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