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Glenn Loury (
Manhattan Institute
,
Brown University
), John McWhorter (
Columbia University
,
Lexicon Valley
,
New York Times
), and Ian Buruma (
Bard
,
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
)
The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness
.
0:00
Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion?
.
10:47
Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems
.
21:08
How Ian experienced his own cancelation
.
28:02
America’s exportation of wokeness
.
41:31
Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit?
.
45:45
John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives
.
52:54
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Ian’s
Harper’s
piece, “Doing the Work”
John’s book,
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Jian Ghomeshi’s 2018 NYRB piece, “Reflections from a Hashtag”
Tomiwa Owolade’s book,
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter
David Brooks’s NYT oped, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?”
John’s NYT oped, “One Sentence Does Not Define a Curriculum”
The Florida Board of Education’s 2023 standards for social studies
Robert Cherry’s essay on slavery at Glenn’s Substack
The Glenn Show | Aug 11, 2023 | The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma)
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