0:00 Great writing is “a marriage of life and honesty”

3:20 Glenn: I am my book’s primary audience

8:00 Glenn the Rationalist vs Glenn the Believer

18:00 How much did Glenn’s socio-economic status affect his sense of black belonging?

24:26 The radical rhetoric of privileged African Americans

29:38 Against reparations

33:57 A raised fist, but not a hand out

40:27 Colorblindness in theory and practice

50:11 Is race orthodoxy the first step on the road to totalitarianism?

1:03:01 Self-reliance and individualism

Recorded June 26, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Jennifer and Winkfield’s book, Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race

Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins’s book, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party

Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker’s cookbook, Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

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

Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Sheena Michele Mason’s forthcoming book, The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism

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

Winkfield and Jennifer’s conversation with Angel Eduardo

Free Black Thought

Václav Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”

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