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    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 flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.

    26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?

    38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness

    41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?

    46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?

    51:08 Debating the presidential debates

    Recorded March 16, 2024

    Links and Readings

    American Fiction trailer

    Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

    Rustin trailer

    Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”

    John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”

    John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”

    Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

    Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

    Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994



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    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 square without considering my faith

    24:48 Determining justice in a fallen world

    29:35 What’s wrong with criminal justice today?

    31:48 The problem of prosecutorial immunity

    38:43 Matthew’s take on George Floyd

    43:16 Has the criminal justice system truly reformed itself on race matters?

    50:00 The denial of bail and the denial of justice

    56:37 Matthew: We don’t have quick, accurate, reliable verdicts

    1:02:41 Why Matthew opposes the death penalty “as currently practiced in the United States”

    1:08:21 How ordinary Americans can help

    Recorded February 28, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Matthew’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

    Richard John Neuhaus’s book, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America

    Philip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present

    National Register of Exonerations

    St. Irenaeus’s Against Heresies

    Kellen Funk and Sandra Mayson’s Harvard Law Review article, “Bail at the Founding”



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    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 at Yale

    24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital

    29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police?

    35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee

    40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding

    46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon

    52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative”

    58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction

    Recorded February 19, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Rob’s memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

    Rob’s Substack

    Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less”

    Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford”

    Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

    Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

    Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

    Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

    Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"



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    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 charge

    35:30 What’s causing the anti-police sentiment in Minneapolis

    40:40 Violent crime in the George Floyd Square “autonomous zone”

    49:39 Shane: Even liberals need to vote Republican in local Minneapolis elections

    54:36 The Fani Willis issue in Georgia

    Recorded February 24, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Keith Ellison’s book, Breaking the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

    Glenn and John’s episode, “The Fall of Minneapolis Reconsidered”

    Radley Balko’s response to Glenn, John, and Coleman Hughes

    Rajiv Sethi and Brendan O’Flaherty book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crimes, and the Pursuit of Justice

    Shane’s website

    Shane’s Alpha News piece on the community meeting about the new Minneapolis Third Precinct location

    Crime Watch Minneapolis’s X page

    Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America



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    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 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago

    23:25 The Rooftop Pastor

    25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism

    29:56 Project HOOD

    33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools

    37:02 Class differences within the black community

    Recorded January 31, 2024

    Links and Readings

    New Beginnings Church

    Project HOOD

    Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”

    Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange



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    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: Identity matters, even for conservatives

    21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration

    28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency

    32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?

    37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump

    40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse

    50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn

    56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days

    58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn

    Recorded January 4, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)

    Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired

    Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse

    Hit Strategies

    American Cornerstone Institute

    The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts



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    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 Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?

    25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics

    28:26 The problem with colorblindness

    36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”

    43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around

    52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

    Recorded February 11, 2024

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”

    Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis

    Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix

    Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

    Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd”

    Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”

    Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

    The trailer for Rustin

    Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”

    A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

    Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”

    Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin



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    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 problem

    18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”

    21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir

    25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling

    27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now

    30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets

    42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree

    46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists

    49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates

    51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings

    56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success

    Recorded January 26, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Noam Dworman’s TGS appearance

    Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table

    Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table

    Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis

    Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table

    Benny Morris on Live from the Table

    Tara Henley’s Lean Out

    Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

    Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena

    Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

    Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

    Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom

    Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

    John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

    University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report

    University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression

    Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin

    Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

    Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict

    Rajiv and Brendan O’Flahery’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and Pursuit of Justice

    Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

    Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

    Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”

    Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”



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    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 the ideological spectrum

    19:42 Glenn: Loyalty tests are unreasonable

    23:16 Trying to understand the human costs of war

    26:26 Glenn: There is no decent alternative to a two-state solution

    33:32 “Apartheid,” “genocide,” and other potentially unhelpful terms

    39:29 Noam: Thank God for President Biden

    44:13 Why Noam is worried about American attitudes toward Israel

    49:08 Will the Gaza War end up strengthening Hamas?

    56:08 The tone-deafness of some supporters of Israel

    Recorded January 31, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Noam’s podcast, Live from the Table

    The Glenn Show Live at the Comedy Cellar

    Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar

    Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray

    The Brown University faculty’s ceasefire letter

    Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

    Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

    Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

    Glenn’s most recent conversation with Robert Wright

    Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict

    Aaron Maté’s appearance on Noam’s podcast



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    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 Ackman looks “absurd”

    26:47 Three cheers for John’s dinosaurs

    28:22 Is Glenn really a “black conservative”?

    31:11 The three dimensions of black conservatism

    37:50 Black elites and immigration

    42:35 Ibram X. Kendi undeterred

    44:48 Roland Fryer is still standing

    46:48 Is Amy Wax getting railroaded by Penn?

    Recorded January 27, 2024

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT piece, “We Need a New Word for ‘Plagiarism’”

    Elon Musk’s DEI airline post on X

    Neri Oxman’s CV

    Adolph Reed’s essay, “‘What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?’: The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual” (originally published in the Village Voice, April 11, 1995)

    Wilfred Reilly’s comparative IQ post on X

    Recording of Amy Wax’s FIRE webinar

    Glenn’s December 2021 episode with Amy Wax

    Glenn’s August 2022 episode with Amy Wax

    Charles Murray’s book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Race, Gender, and Class

    Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray



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    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 Intellectuals in the wild

    14:28 How James Bryant Conant built the modern Harvard 


    17:33 
 and how it was broken

    18:52 Glenn’s previous conversation with Omer Bartov

    24:12 Why David thinks the Gaza War falls short of genocide but maybe not ethnic cleansing

    25:51 What Claudine Gay could (and maybe should) have said at her congressional hearing

    27:51 Why David thinks originalists will have a problem rejecting attempts to remove Trump from electoral ballots

    32:38 David: Mitch McConnell should have impeached Trump when he had the chance

    36:07 David’s new book, States of the Union

    41:03 Have state of the union addresses always been as boring as they are now?

    44:55 Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, and their legacies

    57:37 Why Obama didn’t propose a New New Deal after the 2008 financial crisis

    1:01:01 Biden’s silence

    Recorded January 10, 2024

    Links and Readings

    David’s book, Economic Diplomacy and the Origin of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939

    David’s book, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler

    David’s book, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War

    David’s book, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    David’s book, Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017

    David’s book, NFL 1965: The Most Exciting Season

    David’s book, A Life in History

    David’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023

    Glenn’s previous conversation with David

    Fareed Zakaria on elite universities

    Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

    David’s blog, History Unfolding

    David’s blog post about the Fourteenth Amendment

    Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States

    John F. Kennedy’s June 11, 1963 address on segregation



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  • 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 me to discuss the essay and the work of Clarence Thomas: Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute, Robert George of Princeton, and Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School.

    0:00 Introductions

    2:58 Why Glenn wrote “Clarence Thomas and Me”

    5:27 Randall: “Justice Thomas trades on his blackness”

    10:58 Glenn: Clarence Thomas has not “betrayed black people”

    12:30 Thomas’s engagement with natural law jurisprudence

    19:29 How would Thomas have come down on Brown v. Board of Education?

    20:55 The loyalty trap

    24:20 Randall: Thomas’s originalism may also commit him to sanctioning segregation

    28:24 Robbie: There are originalist interpretations that support Brown v. Board of Education

    34:07 Thomas’s race cases

    36:03 Glenn: Thomas can act as both a principled jurist and as an advocate for the rights of African Americans

    40:56 Randall: In 100 years, people will regard Shelby County v. Holder as one of the worst decisions in the Court’s history

    44:36 Maintaining integrity under pressure

    51:22 What are the differences between Thomas’s, Scalia’s, and Alito’s originalisms?

    55:30 Will Thomas have broader popularity in the future?

    1:01:10 Is racial solidarity inconsistent with judicial impartiality?

    1:03:30 Closing remarks

    Recorded January 17, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Clarence Thomas and Me”

    Glenn’s book, One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America

    Michael McConnell’s article, “The Originalist Case for Brown v. Board of Education”

    Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick’s book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

    Lon Fuller’s book, The Morality of Law

    The documentary on Clarence Thomas, Created Equal



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  • 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 John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist

    28:10 The Tabia Lee affair at D’Anza Community College

    29:58 How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal

    32:47 Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”

    35:57 How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up

    41:41 John’s upcoming cabaret show

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT piece, “Claudine Gay Was Not Driven Out Because She Is Black”

    Glenn’s conversation with Tabia Lee

    “All’s Fair in Love and War” from Gold Diggers of 1937



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  • 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 of Hamas”

    24:45 The threat to democracy in Israel

    26:27 Omer: Netanyahu is driving the country to the right in order to avoid a corruption trial

    30:07 How “Jewish supremacists” have gained control of Israel’s government

    34:01 Why Omer’s Zionism does not commit him to defending Israel’s actions

    36:46 The risk of genocide in Gaza

    40:05 The IDF’s procedure in the Gaza invasion

    43:09 What will happen to the Gazan refugees?

    45:00 The international community’s role in finding a resolution to the Gaza War

    48:17 Is the IDF “the most moral army in the world”?

    54:39 The revenge motive

    57:07 Omer: The campaign in Gaza is a fiasco

    59:38 A US-led plan for “the day after”

    1:04:37 Is peace in Israel a pollyannaish pipe dream?

    Recorded January 2, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict

    Omer’s New Statesman piece, “Both Netanyahu and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity”

    Hamas’s 1988 charter

    Omer’s NYT op-ed, “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide”



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  • 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 Court’s affirmative action decision, the riots of 2020, the Gaza War, and other big topics on the show.

    0:00 A New Year's message from Glenn

    2:36 How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else?

    11:15 Glenn goes in on the 2020 riots

    16:34 John: I love linguistics, but linguistics no longer loves me

    25:37 Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment?

    34:58 When the smoke clears in Gaza

    45:34 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death

    54:32 Glenn and John revisit their first conversation



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  • 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 The problems of national security and public health

    26:57 Are public employee unions constitutional?

    39:35 Market constraints don’t hold for government employees

    34:55 Do public sector workers need protection from exploitation?

    39:22 Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates”

    40:58 A short history of the civil service

    46:49 Is Philip inveighing against the Democratic Party and the labor movement at large?

    53:12 Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too

    56:08 The necessity of a constitutional solution to public unions

    1:00:58 Philip: The political organizing of public unions harms the public

    1:04:46 Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case?

    Recorded October 27, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Philip’s book, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

    Philip’s book, Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America

    Philip’s latest book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

    Edward Banfield’s book, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

    Robert Putnam’s book, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    Philip’s forthcoming book, Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society



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  • 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 Minnesota DA Keith Ellison’s email to Glenn

    24:11 The expert testimony from Dr. Martin Tobin on Floyd’s cause of death

    26:12 Adjudicating disputes about the cause of death

    34:36 Were racial justice tropes part of the Floyd incident?

    38:20 Why Liz and JC think Derek Chauvin didn’t get a fair trial

    41:28 Why JC didn’t include the entire viral video of Floyd in the doc

    44:30 What Chauvin told JC about the incident

    47:40 Humanizing the Minnesota police

    50:41 The aftermath of the Minneapolis riots

    55:32 The lawsuits that followed the Floyd family’s settlement

    56:34 The drugs that “complicated” Floyd’s restraint

    Recorded December 16, 2023.

    Links and Readings

    Glenn and John’s episode about The Fall of Minneapolis

    Liz and JC’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

    Liz’s book, They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd



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  • 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 Galilee

    Recorded November 27, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Tabia’s New York Post piece, “I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism”

    Tabia’s Compact piece, “A Black DEI Director Canceled by DEI”

    Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

    Do No Harm Medicine

    Coalition for Empowered Education



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  • 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 Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America?

    Recorded December 2, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Glenn and John’s May 2020 episode, “Cops and Race”

    Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

    Eli and Shelby Steele’s documentary, What Killed Michael Brown?

    Barbershop, “OJ did it”

    Coleman Hughes’s forthcoming book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America



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