The Glenn Show

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s affe...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin 5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy 9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats 17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech? 2...

A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month. 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS 4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts 9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first 1...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn 4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself 10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement” 18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy W...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West 3:32 John’s awards show allergy 6:41 The realness of American Fiction 14:50 Rustin ’s narrow historical vision 21:56 The SATs are on their way back 23:23 Afraid to flagrantl...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice 5:28 Loving the criminal offender 8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of marijuana? 14:59 Christianity and the legal use of force 20:39 Matthew: I cannot enter the public s...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 What makes an “elite”? 4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood 7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption 12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force 17:23 The uses of military discipline 22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me 6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial? 16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for a confrontation with Ellison? 23:30 Shane’s account of civil decay in Minneapolis 29:24 Shane: The radicals are in...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy 3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society 10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status 18:29 Why Corey supports the police 21:47...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics 7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era 9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative 12:48 The two sides of black “progress” 17:24 Shermichael: Identit...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue ? 7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis , Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John 17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin? 19:55 Were Gl...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses 4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine 9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test 12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship pr...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Why Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel 5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve 8:49 Loyalty among friends during the Gaza War 13:15 The blowback from Brown’s ceasefire letter 17:18 Talking about Israel across th...

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 John: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin 6:50 Has DEI taken a hit after the Gay controversy? 13:50 When “DEI” really means “racial preferences” 22:12 The case of Neri Oxman 23:52 John: Bill Ack...

Preorder Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The many, many books of David Kaiser 3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard 6:09 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard 10:03 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism 12:35 Intellectua...

Preorder Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative wherever you buy your books. If you missed Wednesday’s City Journal and Manhattan Institute-hosted livestream, I’ve got you covered. Today I’m releasing the recording of that livestream as a special bonus episode . This event marked the publication of my City Journal essay “Clarence Thomas and Me,” and I had a stellar line-up alongside...

0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative 2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) 8:59 A ringing endorsement from John 10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? 15:28 Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” 16:20 What would King have thought of Claudine Gay? 20:20 King’s radicalism 25:54...

0:00 The long road leading to the Gaza War 9:14 Don’t Palestinians have some responsibility for the current state of affairs? 9:48 The precedent of the 1973 Yom Kippur War 11:26 Omer: Israel only negotiates under pressure 13:31 Netanyahu and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 15:27 The US’s military support for Israel 16:32 The origins of Hamas 20:20 Omer: Netanyahu’s coalition is “a mirror image...

I had planned to release the first Glenn and John episode of 2024 on New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and John and I could not record as scheduled. So instead, my staff put together this collection of some of our favorite clips from 2023. John and I covered a lot of ground last year. Here you’ll see us addressing African American performance on standardized tests, the Supreme C...

0:00 Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery 2:26 Philip’s skepticism toward the role of lawyers in the US 4:34 What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? 6:59 How to ensure worker safety without “4,000 rules” 8:07 Why the US spends so much on healthcare 11:32 Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust 14:58 The origins of American distrust 18:42 Re-instilling trust 21:38 Th...

0:00 How Liz and JC came to collaborate on their doc, The Fall of Minneapolis 4:18 JC: No, the footage in the doc is not AI-manipulated 6:08 How much of the body cam footage is previously unseen? 8:18 Who lied about George Floyd, what did they lie about, and why? 13:30 The relevance of Floyd’s behavior during the incident 17:30 JC: Minneapolis Chief of Police Arradondo perjured himself 22:30 Minne...

0:00 Tabia’s early career as a teacher 5:40 Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director 17:06 The antisemitism problem at De Anza 25:25 The inescapable BIPOC binary 28:52 From disagreement to deplatforming 35:30 Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty 39:00 How attempts to silence Tabia backfired 40:54 Tabia’s broad vision of diversity 47:46 Learning from the medical professionals of Gal...

0:00 A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions 5:42 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death 14:27 The price of a “poetic truth” 20:09 Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? 23:26 Glenn: George Floyd was no hero 29:03 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct 34:54 Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? 41:48...