The Glenn Show

Leigh's new satirical novel, Self Care ... Leigh's viral essay on the fall of the girlboss ... The life-changing magic of tidying up your whiteness ... Activism as self-improvement ... Are activists inadvertently promoting racial segregation? ... Why are women's spaces prone to unraveling? ...

How did evangelicals view Trump's infamous walk to the church? ... Sarah's new book, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump ... The many commonalities between Trump and Cyrus the Great ... The Christian Right and alt-right, a "coalition of lost cultural dominance" ... The secret origin story of the Christian Right ... Sarah: Race is an animating force of the Christian Right ... Can anything lessen America's tribal grievances? ...

David's memoir, A Life in History ... David: Political history is being ignored in the academy ... Defending the Western model ... Did the Vietnam War spark a turn away from Enlightenment values? ... The 1619 Project and the ideals of the founding ... The lament of the white male ... Why is college so expensive? ... Did the founders actually believe in universal values? ...

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Theories about why infection numbers are going back up ... What they don't tell you about masks ... Is it too early to dance on Trump's grave? ... Mickey: The NYT has become a guilt-tripping barrage of wokedom ... Black activist Shaun King presents Biden with a Sister Souljah opportunity ... A new theory about the infamous WaPo Halloween party story ... Why has the right lost the culture war? ... What would a post-Trump GOP look like? ...

On New York's primary night, did the left strike back? ... Mail-in voting and fears of corruption ... Biden is up 14 in one poll, but Matt isn't ready to dance on Trump's grave ... How is it that Biden is doing better during a period of leftwing civil unrest? ... Why the odds of Warren as VP keep sinking ... Thought experiment: What if Trump goes silent? ...

How Kaiser became one of China's first rockstars ... How the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade helped break up the band ... Did America’s post-9/11 War on Terror have a liberalizing effect on China? ... Seeing the world from Beijing's perspective ... Some philosophical questions occasioned by China's rise ... Racism and America’s fear of China ... How should we judge China's behavior in its own neighborhood? ... Is President Xi a corruption fighter or just a power consolidator? ... Steve Bannon and his dodgy Chinese sugar daddy ... Kaiser: A huge misconception about China is that engagement failed ...

How Glenn and Carol first met ... Carol's 1993 book, Black Faces, Black Interests ... Would Stacey Abrams have won if she were pro-life? ... Carol's journey to Christianity ... Carol's prescient book on the new white nationalism ... Carol: "I have a lot of respect for Jared Taylor" ... Carol's harsh critique of identity politics on college campuses ... Are black conservatives winning, losing, or something else? ... Why Carol loves Donald Trump ...

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Threats of disorder and promises of reform after George Floyd ... Mickey: “The Supreme Court is falling apart” ... The Washington Post Halloween party blackface debacle ... The not-very-shocking revelations in John Bolton’s new book ... Mickey complains to the manager and clarifies his position on welfare reform ... Bob: Yes, Covid cases are rising—but deaths are falling ... Bob attempts to strong-arm Mickey into starting a Patreon ...

Coleman's post-collegiate life (with a cameo from Glenn's wife) ... Reopening and the invisible cost of agreeing with Trump ... Thomas Sowell's thoughts on partisanship ... Glenn: Trump is "bumbling his way through" the tradeoffs of reopening ... Masks as a way of life ... Do racial disparities in Covid deaths demonstrate systemic bias? ...

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Gorsuch's landmark opinion affirming LGBT workplace protections ... The failure of the conservative legal movement ... Matt: The "but Gorsuch" argument for Trump is dead ... Biden is up in all the polls, but Matt is skeptical ... Bill: The left is still seeking a big primary win ... Imagining Biden's first 100 days ...