The Glenn Show

0:00 How Sabby got her start on YouTube

6:18 What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”?

11:31 Is the US sliding into fascism?

19:26 The tension between race and class on the left

27:15 Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men

32:39 The military-industrial complex and climate change

42:07 Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops

51:20 Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration

54:18 Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another

59:46 Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine”

1:04:35 How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests

Recorded September 16, 2023

Links & Readings

Sabby’s YouTube page

Revolutionary Blackout Network’s YouTube page

Sabby’s interview with Cornel West

AOC’s endorsement of Joe Biden on Pod Save America

Jimmy Dore’s interview with Cornel West

Sabby’s episode on Jimmy Dore-Cornel West interview

Glenn and John McWhorter’s conversation with Mark Goldblatt

Glenn’s debate with Richard Wolff

Briahana Joy Gray debates Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski

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0:00 Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification”

6:30 Affirmative action in spirit and practice

13:18 Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone?

19:17 The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action

22:47 Re-weighting and funding the admissions process

32:28 How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people?

38:23 Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness?

44:42 Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity

48:10 Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati

Recorded September 10, 2023

Links and Readings

Tyler’s NYT piece, “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions”

Tyler’s Atlantic piece, “I’m a Black Professor. You Don’t Need to Bring That Up.”

Roland Fryer’s NYT piece, “How to Fix College Admissions Now”

Glenn’s conversation with Jay Caspian Kang

Jimmy Dore’s interview with Cornel West

John’s appearance on The View

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0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives

7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact

13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating

29:56 Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s?

35:52 Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

44:20 Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans

47:58 Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy

Recorded September 8, 2023

Links and Readings

Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

Heather Mac Donald’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

Gary Orfield’s book, The Reconstruction of Southern Education: The Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

James Fishkin’s book, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family

Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

John Skretny’s book, The Minority Rights Revolution

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

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0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story?

9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John

17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times

22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry

36:18 Is wokeness on the wane?

42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain

51:46 A Democrat by any other name

56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump

Recorded August 31, 2023

Links and Readings

The Philadelphia Harriet Tubman statue

John’s NYT piece, “Two Languages Walk into a Bar”

John’s NYT piece, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry”

Oliver Anthony’s song, “Rich Men North of Richmond”

Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That in a Small Town”

Donald Trump’s mugshot

Sabrina Salvati’s YouTube channel

Carol Swain’s recent TGS episode

Carol Swain’s book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress

Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules

Carol Swain’s PragerU videos

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0:00 Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump

9:59 Why should black people support Trump?

16:31 Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election

26:07 Does Trump face a credible assassination threat?

30:35 The redefinition of white supremacy

35:51 Deracializing the crime debate

39:58 Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World

50:55 Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another

1:04:54 Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson

1:08:06 What affirmative action did right

Recorded August 26, 2023

Links and Readings

Carol and Mike Towle’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World

Carol’s Godfather III Twitter (now X) post

Reuters story on Harrison Floyd

Jason Riley’s book, The Black Boom

Tucker Carlson’s debate night interview with Donald Trump

Carol’s book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration

Carol and Christopher J. Schorr’s book, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory Is Burning Down the House

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0:00 A sixteen-year-long conversation

5:45 Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era

21:19 The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization

32:56 Glenn pulls rank

37:59 Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute

50:15 Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia?

Recorded August 19, 2023

Links and Readings

Glenn and John’s first conversation from November 7, 2007

John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

John’s book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Martin Peretz’s memoir, The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left, Right, and Center

Jeffrey O.C. Ogbar’s book, Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap

Charles Murray’s book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

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

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0:00 Haim’s history with The Glenn Show

7:54 How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine

17:42 The legionnaire’s lingua franca

27:55 Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine

42:27 A pen in one hand and a gun in the other

47:56 Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected

53:34 Is the two-state solution dead?

Recorded July 23, 2023

Links and Readings

Haim’s writing for this newsletter

Haim’s Substack, The Garland

Glenn’s recent conversation with Cornel West

Haim and Nikita Petrov’s exchange on the Ukraine War

Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica

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0:00 The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness

10:47 Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion?

21:08 Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems

28:02 How Ian experienced his own cancelation

41:31 America’s exportation of wokeness

45:45 Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit?

52:54 John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives

Recorded August 7, 2023

Links and Readings

Ian’s Harper’s piece, “Doing the Work”

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

Jian Ghomeshi’s 2018 NYRB piece, “Reflections from a Hashtag”

Tomiwa Owolade’s book, This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter

David Brooks’s NYT oped, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?”

John’s NYT oped, “One Sentence Does Not Define a Curriculum”

The Florida Board of Education’s 2023 standards for social studies

Robert Cherry’s essay on slavery at this newsletter

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