The Glenn Show

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0:00 Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? 13:34 Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought 15:07 Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee 22:47 Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec 30:38 How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community 36:16 Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black stude...

0:00 The state of campus speech after 10/7 5:48 Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? 15:43 “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas 26:17 Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics 29:31 The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams 38:17 The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea...

0:00 How Bob gave Glenn his start in podcasting 2:05 Is the Gaza War in Israel’s best interests … 11:46 … and if not, what should Israel have done in response to October 7? 18:06 How Hamas gained control of Gaza 26:53 Bob: Some in the Israeli government wouldn’t mind a wider war in the Middle East 36:46 What does “From the river to the sea” actually mean? 46:10 Bob: Every settlement in the West Ba...

0:35 A quick announcement 1:46 What led Yascha to write about identity 6:22 An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” 12:15 What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? 19:15 From postmodernism to post-civil rights 28:45 The three key claims of identity synthesis 36:02 What led up to the summer of 2020? 45:51 The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo 50:45 Yascha’s defense of u...

0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century 6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions 11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? 16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution 26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution 32:29 The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran 36:31 The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran 45:01 Reza: O...

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0:00 Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist 6:11 Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism 12:46 There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. 17:08 Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic 27:57 John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict 34:59 Is it right for people to lose the...

0:00 Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational 6:55 How small states deal with world powers 10:13 If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? 16:40 John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just 21:58 The risk of escalation 29:26 Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West 33:51 Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential...

0:00 The blowback from Coleman’s TED Talk 8:50 Did TED intentionally throttle promotion for Coleman’s talk? 17:08 John’s trouble with TED while promoting Woke Racism 20:21 Coleman’s forthcoming book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America 29:17 Race in public and private life 43:49 Closure on the TED affair 45:14 What are the goals of each side in the Israel-Palestine conflic...

0:00 Introduction by Greg Burnep 4:27 What does affirmative action mean in 2023? 11:06 Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” 18:21 Diversity’s double-talk 31:18 Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? 34:33 Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems 41:16 Affirmative action is an elite problem 48:48 Affirmative action as...

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0:00 What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? 3:31 Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist 12:08 CRT’s racial power-grab 18:06 Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? 23:10 Disguising failure as victimology 32:15 Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing 39:58 The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal 51:00 John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” 5...

0:00 How Sabby got her start on YouTube 6:18 What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? 11:31 Is the US sliding into fascism? 19:26 The tension between race and class on the left 27:15 Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men 32:39 The military-industrial complex and climate change 42:07 Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops 51:20 Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigrati...

0:00 Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” 6:30 Affirmative action in spirit and practice 13:18 Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? 19:17 The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action 22:47 Re-weighting and funding the admissions process 32:28 How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? 38:23 Can we have interpersonal colorblind...

0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives 7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact 13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality 23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating 29:56 Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? 35:52 Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education 44:20 G...

0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? 9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John 17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times 22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry 36:18 Is wokeness on the wane? 42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain 51:46 A Democrat by any other name 56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump Recorded Augus...

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0:00 Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump 9:59 Why should black people support Trump? 16:31 Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election 26:07 Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? 30:35 The redefinition of white supremacy 35:51 Deracializing the crime debate 39:58 Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World 50:55...

0:00 A sixteen-year-long conversation 5:45 Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era 21:19 The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization 32:56 Glenn pulls rank 37:59 Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute 50:15 Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? Recorded August 19, 2023 Links and Readings Glenn and John’s first conversation from November 7,...

0:00 Haim’s history with The Glenn Show 7:54 How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine 17:42 The legionnaire’s lingua franca 27:55 Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine 42:27 A pen in one hand and a gun in the other 47:56 Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected 53:34 Is the two-state solution dead? Recorded July 23, 2023 Links and Readings Haim’s writing for this newslet...

0:00 The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness 10:47 Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? 21:08 Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems 28:02 How Ian experienced his own cancelation 41:31 America’s exportation of wokeness 45:45 Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? 52:54 John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives Recorded...

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0:00 How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed 12:15 Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced 20:07 Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? 25:35 The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework 32:01 Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? 34:55 Why so little outrage over the SCOTUS affirmativ...

0:00 Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case 8:57 Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? 19:17 Why Peter got interested in affirmative action 24:20 Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it 30:33 Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions 34:20 The brilliance of Roland Fryer 51:17 Campus diversity after affirmative action Recorded July...