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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this edition of TGS Live, I talk about the events of the conference, my contribution, and one of the ideas informing my new book project . The conference honored the past accomplishments of Thomas Sowell, but it also pointed to the future . I heard the...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that a new civil war may be coming to the US. Is he trying to warn us? Or is he purposefully stoking the fire? Glenn takes Tucker to task. Today’s episode is just one segment from last week’s livestream. If you missed it and want to watch the full recording , click below to become a full subscriber. The Gl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Note: Due to the AWS outage, many online services experienced disruptions throughout Monday. To ensure that everyone receives the episode, I thought it best to hold the episode until Amazon fixed the problem. Apologies for the delay. In this edition of the...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Happy 60th, John! 2:20 2020 in hindsight 12:05 Ground News ad 14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window? 18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right? 29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk 34:14 Glenn’s new book idea 41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown J...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This week on The Glenn Show, Robert Patton-Spruill and I get into a detailed analysis of a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein . The show begins as a debate on their divergent reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk , expressed in a New York Times column by Klein and a Vanity Fair piece by Coates. I find Coates’s smu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Last Friday’s livestream was a hot one. Today I’m posting the video for all who missed it (you have to be a paid subscriber to hear the full version now, but everybody else will get it on Friday). But trust me, this is appointment viewing. I’ll be at Stanford later this week for a conference on the work of Thomas...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Note: Links and info for my next livestream, which is happening this Friday, October 3 at 1:00 PM EDT , can be found at the end of this post.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Normally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast , so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full...

The Glenn Show is almost entirely listener supported. We need your help in order to keep bringing you the conversations you can't hear anywhere else. To get early episodes and much, much more, become a full subscriber at my Substack. You can keep tabs on Clifton’s progress and support his work at his Substack, Becoming Thomas Sowell . Video Links 0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter 3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In our latest Q&A, John McWhorter and I take questions on troubled black communities, the N-word, issues on which we've changed our minds, ratcheting down political tensions in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, and how we handle personal security...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last Friday, I hosted a livestream featuring Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and call-ins from viewers. Once again, our topic is the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We talk about my own cancelation by the Manhattan Institute , warding off...

Support The Glenn Show at https:/.glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Why Marc thinks nothing works 6:45 Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs? 12:50 Penn Station and public interest logjams 20:29 Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work 28:17 Two progressive conceptions of power 33:03 Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power 39...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this episode, co-hosted with my editor Mark Sussman, I talk with viewers about the murders of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska , the “black crime” canard, the effects of immigration on black employment , and other weighty topics. It wasn’t all doom and g...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 The upcoming Hoover Institution conference honoring Thomas Sowell 5:37 Sowell’s apprentice work at the University of Chicago 12:58 Ground News ad 14:45 Hayek’s influence on Sowell 19:55 Jason: No one is smarter than the market 24:58 The unconstrained vision vs. the constrained vision 33:04 Sowell’s contribution to economic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com On this week's livestream, Nikita and I are joined by filmmaker, professor, master distiller, and "housing provider" Robert Patton-Spruill. And he does not disappoint. He begins by informing me of a connection between us: his father , then a professor of a...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 What Thomas Sowell means to Emily 3:54 What’s the difference between a conservative and a classical liberal? 10:59 Ground News ad 12:45 Sowell’s interventions in price theory and microeconomics 19:31 The parallel careers of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams 24:51 Emily: Trump is not fulfilling Sowell’s vision of liberty 33:...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com For the full episode and to support The Glenn Show, visit https://glennloury.substack.com On this recording of my latest livestream, I sit down with my editor, Mark Sussman. Inspired by a recent memo posted by liberal moderate think tank Third Way, Mark and I talk a bit about the communicative dynamics of progres...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Glenn's new book, Self-Censorship , here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww Video Links 0:00 How woke campus culture degrades mental health 5:47 The rise of “microaggressions” ' 8:21 The harms caused by discourses of harm...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this edition of the Q&A, Glenn and John take questions on MLK and white moderates, audience capture, civilian casualties in Gaza, "I have to do X" vs. "I get to do X," Trump's performance as president, the role of trustees and administration in determin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Subscribe to The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com The livestreaming experiment continues here at TGS. I never know what’s going to come at me. I’m operating outside my comfort zone. Of course, that’s what makes it fun. The callers often ask me to weigh in on a whole range of subjects I’d never think...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek's podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/join Order Glenn's new book, Self-Censorship , here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yv...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In our latest livestream, TGS editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission and its rather unpleasant but compelling critique of modern existence , after which we take questions from viewers and callers . We get into some une...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 John: Not all of Trump’s demands on Columbia are crazy 3:45 Are the accusations of antisemitism at Columbia apt? 12:43 Ground News ad 14:22 The shifting public perception of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza 24:30 The historical legacy of Gaza’s starvation 27:40 Glenn: There are ways to destroy Israel without an army 32:21 Th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Self-Censorship here or wherever you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww In this conversation, my editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Kamala Harris’s f...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration 4:11 Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual 13:34 How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions? 25:31 What really matters in college admissions? 29:47 Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s 34:16 Ra...