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The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported. Become a subscriber and join the conversation at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Paul: The past shows us there’s a basis for hope for this country 3:40 The origins of Paul’s new book, American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now 11:07 Is the push-pull between liberation struggles and institutional resist...

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 Since we’ve got the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of the week, I’m releasing the first half of the conversation to everyone today instead of this Friday. For access to the entire conversation, including the Q&A, become a full subscriber. This episode's c...

The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported. To become a full subscriber and receive even more great TGS content, sign up here . Video Links 0:00 Howard’s new book, The Projects: A New History of Public Housing 5:58 The failed utopianism of American public housing 12:04 The dispossession of urban African American communities 14:54 Ground News ad 16:40 Did reformers have a reason for demol...

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, TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill and I talk about rising tensions with Venezuela , New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his proposed policies, Jeffrey Epstein wreaking havoc from beyond the grave, Nick Fuentes’s appear...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Charles’s new book, Taking Religious Seriously 8:31 Why Charles finds the idea of divine creation plausible 13:54 Charles’s “road to Damascus” moment 19:25 The appeal of Christianity 24:51 The evidence for life after death 31:38 Charles: “The relative positions of science and religion have flipped” 36:42 The trouble with sc...

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 The first half of the show consists of a pre-recorded interview with political scientist Charles Murray . He’s best known for books like Losing Ground and The Bell Curve —controversial though they may have been, they were grounded in the empirical methods...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Watch and listen to the full, 2-hour episode: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/tgs-live-democrats-leadership-crisis Video Links 0:00 John’s misgivings about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Zionism 7:22 Is anti-Zionism reducible to “good black people vs. bad white people”? 11:53 Ground News ad 13:40 Democrats try to pull out of a death spiral 20:05 J...

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, John McWhorter and I took our ongoing conversation into new territory: we streamed it live. Eighteen years into our partnership, and we’re still finding ways to keep it fresh! In the first half of the show, we talk about New York City mayoral...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week’s conference in honor of Thomas Sowell was the culmination of a long year of anticipation, planning, reading, and thinking. In this long excerpt from my most recent livestream, I talk with my editor Mark Sussman about the conference events and my own contributions. I explain the importance of Friedrich Von Hayek to Sowell’s though...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...