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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 National Museum of African American History and Culture
35:50 Will the museum survive Trump’s assault on DEI?
44:47 Are Glenn and John complicit in anti-DEI overreach?
55:30 The racial animus question in anti-DEI reform
Recorded on May 21, 2025
Links and Readings
Glenn’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s interview with Glenn
Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
John’s conversation with actor Clifton Duncan
The BBC’s 1973 production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, starring Lynn Redgrave and James Villiers
Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Victor Herbert’s operetta, Babes in Toyland
John’s NYT piece on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Glenn’s conversation with Brown University student Alex Shieh
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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 financial markets to nations with weak or unstable currency
36:32 Memecoins: Buyer beware
41:07 China’s use of digital currency to expand its surveillance apparatus
47:35 Should a non-expert invest in crypto?
Recorded May 15, 2025
Links and Readings
Yaya and Emily Jin’s report, “China’s Digital Currency: Adding Financial Data to Digital Authoritarianism”
Yaya podcast’s, Designated
Yaya’s audio thriller, The Jabbari Lincoln Files
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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?
35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparations argument
43:26 How do figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones end up at the center of progressive discourse?
Recorded May 7, 2025
Links and Readings
Jason’s new book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
Jason’s book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason’s book, False Black Power
Jason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Derek Bok and William G. Bowen’s book, The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
An Amos & Andy YouTube playlist
Julia pilot episode
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”
Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist
The NYT’s 1619 Project
The Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites Project
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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.
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0:43 Ross: Trump's economic policies are the worst I've seen in my life
7:36 Glenn's new book, SELF-CENSORSHIP
12:00 Trump’s bid to become the most powerful person in the history of the world
21:17 The disruptive effects of tariffs, financial regulatory manipulation, and extraordinary debt levels
27:58 Ross: Alienating our allies is only going to strengthen China
33:41 Glenn: Those who lost out to globalization are getting their way
41:04 Will Trump heed economic warning signs?
48:10 Can Congress constrain Trump?
Recorded April 19, 2025
Links and Readings
Edward Luce’s Financial Times piece, “Trump, Truss, and the ‘Moron Premium’”
Larry Kotlikoff’s Substack
Larry Kotlikoff’s post, “30-Year TIPS Are Looking Mighty Attractive”
Glenn’s most recent conversation with Larry Kotlikoff
Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
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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 general public’s support?
23:05 The university’s role in public discourse
26:26 Was affirmative action a success or a failure?
31:36 The partisan balance in education funding
42:21 The costs and benefits of tenure
50:09 Can education preserve democracy if students aren’t doing the reading?
1:01:59 Are we irrevocably polarized as a nation?
1:07:28 Q&A: You don’t seem as excited by Trump as you once were. What is disappointing you?
1:11:40 Q&A: If higher ed serves society, why do so many elite grads use their degrees to get rich?
1:16:01 Q&A: How do you teach diversity to students who’ve never spent time around people different from them?
1:19:15 Q&A: What’s the difference between contrarianism and provocation?
1:21:23 Q&A: Should fewer people go to college?
Recorded April 22, 2025
Links and Readings
Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
John Stuart Mill’s book, On Liberty
John Milton’a Areopagitica
Alan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students
John’s new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
The Great Courses
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolsty’s novel, War and Peace
Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina
Plato’s dialogue, The Republic
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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 weight loss.
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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 national security run by experts?
17:04 Russia’s motivations: Fear of NATO or imperial ambitions
21:41 Danny: Zelenskyy made a huge misstep in the Oval Office
26:12 Does China have global security ambitions?
35:09 Ending the Middle East’s post-Ottoman redefinition
39:42 Danny: It’s gotta be rough to be Peter Beinart
43:46 Why we don’t need Hitler to explain Trump’s authoritarianism
56:29 Danny: We’ve been in the midst of a constitutional crisis since the 1940s
57:58 Can the nuclear taboo hold?
Recorded April 19, 2025
Links and Readings
Danny’s podcast, American Prestige
Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page’s paper, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens”
Walter Lippmann’s book, Public Opinion
Danny’s book, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual
Transcript of Matt Lauer’s 1998 interview with Madeline Albright
Paul Thomas Chamberlain’s book, The Cold War Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
Lindsey O’Rourke’s book, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War
Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Glenn’s conversation with Peter Beinart
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Danny’s Jacobin piece, “This Is America”
James Whitman’s book, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Carl Schmitt’s book, The Concept of the Political
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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@Brown, diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on campus.
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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 antisemitism
22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions
32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought?
39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism”
52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else
55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment
1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth
1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen Sondheim
Recorded April 12, 2025
Links and Readings
Robbie and Cornel’s new book, Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division
Plato’s Republic
Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Eugene Genovese’s book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Antonio Gramsci’s book, The Prison Notebooks
William Blake’s poem, “London”
Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et Ratio
Genesis 22, King James Version
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Mandy Patinkin sings “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George
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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 investors take to protect themselves from tariff-generated market volatility?
35:46 The possible silver lining in the economy under tariffs
41:32 The hypothetical third-party billionaire who could defeat Trump
44:46 The social security Ponzi scheme
54:50 Larry’s plan for fixing social security
57:29 Are other aging nations facing the same social security crisis as the US?
1:02:23 The failure of checks and balances
Recorded April 4, 2025
Links and Readings
Larry’s Substack
Larry’s company, Economic Security Planning
The MaxiFi Planner
TIPs Ladder
Rajiv Sethi’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Larry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s Economy
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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.
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0:00 Intro
1:03 How Rick feels being a “liberal maverick,” according to the NYT
4:18 Rick’s advocacy for class-based affirmative action
6:39 Rick: “The Trump administration has gone too far” by trying to eliminate racial diversity
13:02 Opening up the elite university’s old boys club
21:21 Will economic diversity in admissions come with test score disparities?
23:55 Ground News ad 25:56 What’s Edward Blum’s deal?
29:36 Rick: The Democratic Party needs to ask itself why it lost to Trump
34:48 The black allies of class-based affirmative action
40:53 Is vocational training a viable alternative to four years of college?
44:48 Addressing the development problem among black students
52:52 Rick’s hopes for a new Democratic Party
Links and Readings
Rick’s new book, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
Pew poll on race and ethnicity in college admissions
Glenn and John’s 2023 conversation with Peter Arcidiacono
The 1966 Coleman report, Equality of Educational Opportunity
Rick’s book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Rick’s Atlantic piece, “Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall”
Progressive Policy Institute
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0:36 How Rajiv saw Trump’s assault on elite higher ed coming
4:26 The Trump administration’s legitimate complaints against higher ed
9:41 Rajiv: The crackdown on campus protest would have happened even without the October 7 protest
17:10 How test scores can marry merit and diversity on college campuses
21:06 Glenn: Doesn’t SFFA v. Harvard justify JD Vance’s criticisms of higher ed?
25:30 Columbia’s capitulation to the Trump administration
33:06 Columbia’s new measures against antisemitism
38:09 The opportunistic adoption of contested phrases
43:27 How bad is the antisemitism problem at Barnard and Columbia?
50:44 Who has the authority to police Columbia’s MESAAS scholars?
1:00:55 Facing the prospect of Trump-generated American brain drain
Recorded March 23, 2025
Links and Readings
Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Rajiv’s post April 2024 post, “Minority Report”
FIRE’s 2024 Faculty Survey
Rajiv’s post, “The Lion Hath Roared”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “Working Definition of Antisemitism”
Eli Lake’s X post questioning the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil
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Noam Dworman moderates a debate between Eli Lake and Norman Finkelstein
Lex Friedman hosts a debate between Norman Finkelstein, Mouin Rabbani, Benny Morris, and Destiny
Dworman interviews Rashid Khalidi
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Mari Matsuda’s Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
Killer Mike’s 2024 FIRE keynote
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I spent part of last week visiting Stanford University, and John is off taking care of business in Australia. The time difference, travel, and speaking obligations made scheduling a recording impossible. So this week, I’ve got something a little different for you. Instead of recording a conversation on the day’s news with John, I decided to record one on my own. In this episode, I talk through some opinion pieces that grabbed my attention and give my take on the topics. I address Trump and the economy, Trump’s predictability and unpredictability, DOGE and MAGA’s slashing of the federal government, Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, antisemitism, and attacks on Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging stations. This is a bit of an experiment—my team and I wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a shot. Let me know how it’s working for you in the comments.
These pieces are all quite relevant as of this posting, on Monday afternoon. But by Friday? Who knows. So I decided to release this episode simultaneously to both free and full subscribers. If you like getting The Glenn Show a few days early, consider becoming a full subscriber. You’ll get new episodes early, plus access to monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, bonus episodes, and other exclusive content.
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2:31 The opportunities and risks of Trump's economic plans
6:50 Is Trump as unpredictable as he seems?
16:00 DOGE and MAGA take a chainsaw to the federal government
22:30 An argument against Mahmoud Khalil's detention ...
32:49 ... and one in favor of Khalil's detention
41:38 Is it time for an official ban on antisemitism?
49:14 Teslas are burning
Recorded March 14, 2025
Links and Readings
Steve Cortes’s RCP piece, “Trump and the Economy: Opportunities and Risks”
Susan Glasser’s New Yorker piece, “Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us What He’s Going to Do?”
Tim Murtaugh’s Washington Times piece, “Why the Democrat Brand Is in the Toilet”
Jeff Mayhugh’s Hill piece, “The MAGA Revolution Is Playing with Fire”
Ross Barkan’s NYMag piece, “Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Will Backfire on Trump”
Josh Hammer’s Daily Signal piece, “Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty”
Mackenzie France’s RCP piece, “Congress Should Pass Antisemitism Awareness Act”
Rich Lowry’s New York Post piece, “Tesla Terrorism Only Reveals the Left’s Impotence”
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0:00 Intro
1:33 The relationships Peter has lost and gained
4:14 Why Peter thinks this is a “watershed” moment in Jewish history
6:50 Who can criticize Israel?
9:44 The challenge of October 7’s aftermath to Jewish self-understanding
15:54 Peter: Jews should support non-violent Palestinian protest, not criminalize it
20:12 Shouldn’t the Palestinians have taken the deals they were offered?
25:48 Peter’s argument for a one-state solution
34:34 The “dirty little secret” of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Jewish critics
37:12 The idolatry of the Jewish state
39:45 The mutual liberation of Jews and Palestinians
41:37 Why aren’t the critics of snowflakes and trigger warnings defending pro-Palestinian campus protesters?
46:01 Peter: Antisemitism is on the rise, and ethno-nationalism is the reason
50:20 Peter: If Gaza is unlivable, then Gazans should be allowed to live where they want
Recorded February 21, 2025
Links and Readings
Peter’s Substack, The Beinart Notebook
Jewish Currents magazine
Peter’s new book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message
Eitan Hersh and Laura Loyden’s article, “Antisemitic Attitudes across the Ideological Spectrum”
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In this episode, Nikita, Mark, and I talk about steelmanning, what people want me to say about Gaza, what I want to say about Gaza, and why I offer disclaimers when I talk foreign policy.
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0:00 Intro
1:55 Did Trump and Vance bully Zelenskyy or give him a dose of reality?
5:16 Glenn: Trump is trying to wind down an unnecessary war
13:49 - Ground News ad
28:58 The “deep game” of European security
32:06 Glenn: America First appeals to me, World War III doesn’t
36:40 Teaching the reparations debate in a post-October 7 world
43:06 MSNBC axes Joy Reid’s show
Recorded March 1, 2025
Links and Readings
Trump and Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting
Tucker Carlson’s onstage interview with Hungarian president Victor Orbán
The latest episode of Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast, America This Week
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”
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In this month's Substack subscriber Q&A, John and I answer your questions on the NAACP, Trump and January 6, Western civilization, how we deal with angry viewers, and more.
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In this bonus episode, Mark, Nikita, and I discuss Trump's chaotic Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, parsing positions from principles, and the fate of Ukraine.
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