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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In lieu of a regular episode this week, I’m presenting a version of our latest livestream. Last week we debuted what I hope will be an ongoing feature of these livestreams: viewer call-ins. Nikita has been working on setting this up for a while now, and as you’ll see, we’ve still got some kinks to work out. We were able to take a number of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com It’s the middle of the summer, it’s hot, and John McWhorter and I are back for another Substack subscriber only Q&A session. In this episode, we take questions about leadership in the black community, critical listening, Percival Everett's novel James , immigration, white women studying black women's history, rig...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence 2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative” 9:34 Ground News ad 11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason 19:33 The Loury family legacy 25:01 Does race still matter? 34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire 45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black comm...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC Democratic primaries 12:07 Ground News ad 14:05 The War on Terror and the War in Gaza 28:54 Should Trump fear Mamdani? 32:02 Glenn: Trump is running the table 42:26 John: Glenn, you’re getting caught up in the Trump Show 48:05 Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and the legacy of conservatism 53:56 G...

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 My latest book, Self-Censorship , is coming out in a couple weeks, and I’m excited to share it with you. As a kind of apéritif, Mark Sussman and I livestreamed our wide-ranging discussion of all things self-censorious. We talk about the book, of course, bu...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument 6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”? 8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings 14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke 22:10 The comedian as gadfly 24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech?...

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 I’m back with my creative director Nikita Petrov on our latest livestream. As you may know, Nikita is Russian. He’s spent some time in the US, but he’s still got a lot of questions about how we do things here and why. This was recorded the day before the I...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 How Jens got interested in American gun violence 2:45 What’s “unexpected” about the origins of gun violence? 5:29 Race and the culture of gun violence 9:30 Ground News ad 11:20 Are high rates of gun violence a cultural issue or an equilibrium? 17:09 Is urban gun violence the result of rational behavior? 24:34 The link betwe...

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 my latest livestream with my editor Mark Sussman, we talk about the state of the academic labor market, teaching writing to undergrads, Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, the wisdom or folly of a federal...

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 This month, John and I tackle questions about grade inflation, the Great Courses, Chapt GPT, race and public art, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine, the end of race-based affirmative action, Trump, Christopher Rufo, and my most recent appearance on the Tucker...

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 week, I did my second ever livestream, this time with my editor here at the Substack, Mark Sussman. We covered a lot of ground: self-censorship in both intimate and public settings, the golden age of MIT, the death of the influential economist Stanley...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Last week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov , live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel , the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica . We went for two hours and covered a lot of gro...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com The Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show 4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed? 11:31 Ground News ad 13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus 17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study? 28:40 John’s trip to the Nationa...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency” 5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps 10:15 Solving the double-spending problem 15:58 The partisan divide on crypto 21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers 26:29 How crypto protocols create value 33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX 35:13 How stablecoins can open up global...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”? 8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action 11:41 Ground News ad 13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend? 17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River 26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility 32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims...

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 installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby , and ethics in higher education.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Censorship-Glenn-C-Loury/dp/1509567402/ref=sr_1_1?crid=223KUFY8BN0X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ar6rmRPzp7pEiJss0o1eUeLbLwOgX_qrXHtWjMS3_m_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.goECGgv0OxAPgLR8kNnsISu5AK6OSVoa5qWVmqRNqwY&dib_tag=se&keywords=self-censorship+glenn+c.+loury&qid=1746808862&...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 00:31 Prefatory remarks 4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme 9:06 Ground News ad 11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought? 18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building 20:25 How did higher ed lose the...

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 bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409 Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx 2:32 The new wokeness of the political right 8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and...

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 bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Bro...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, Self-Censorship . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai ... Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without 9:50 Ground News ad 11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument 20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemit...

Support The Glenn Show at http://glennloury.substack.com VIdeo Links 0:00 Intro 0:45 Why Trump’s tariffs alarm economists 8:18 Are the tariffs designed to offset Trump’s tax cuts? 11:30 Larry’s break with Senator Ron Johnson 14:16 Larry: We’re not in a trade war with other countries, we’re in a trade war with other people 22:44 Is Trump under the sway of a foreign power? 28:45 What measures should...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com For the March 2025 Q&A, John and I take questions on getting outside our bubbles, the first hundred days of the second Trump administration, the Department of Education, contemporary black writers, race and advertising, the assumption of good faith, and undocumented immigration. The Glenn Show is supported almost...