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The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues.
Jan 22, 2024 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
- Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now)
- A ringing endorsement from John
- What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024?
- Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character”
- What would King say to Claudine Gay?
- King’s radicalism
- John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist
- The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College
- How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal
- Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”
- How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up
- John’s upcoming cabaret show
Dec 29, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Philip Howard
- Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery
- What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC?
- Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust
- The problems of national security and public health
- Are public employee unions constitutional?
- Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates”
- Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too
- Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case?
Dec 18, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee
- Tabia’s early career as a teacher
- Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director
- The antisemitism problem at De Anza
- The inescapable BIPOC binary
- From disagreement to deplatforming
- Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty
- How attempts to silence Tabia backfired
- Tabia’s broad vision of diversity
- Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee
Dec 8, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions
- John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death
- The price of a “poetic truth”
- Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict?
- Glenn: George Floyd was no hero
- The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct
- Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative?
- Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America?
Dec 4, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Erec Smith
- Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”?
- Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought
- Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee
- Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec
- How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community
- Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college
- What is rhetoric, anyway?
Nov 29, 2023 —
Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)
- The state of campus speech after 10/7
- Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel?
- “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas
- Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics
- The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams
- The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea”
- The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding
- If not liberalism, then what?
- Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart
Nov 17, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk
- A quick announcement
- What led Yascha to write about identity
- An intellectual history of “identity synthesis”
- What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”?
- From postmodernism to post-civil rights
- The three key claims of identity synthesis
- What led up to the summer of 2020?
- The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo
- Yascha’s defense of universalism
Nov 12, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan
- Persia at the turn of the twentieth century
- Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions
- Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time?
- How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution
- How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution
- The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran
- The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture
- The internal and external pressures on Iran
- The amorality of foreign policy
Nov 3, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist
- Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism
- There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us.
- Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic
- John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict
- Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel?
- Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime?
- Glenn and John’s responsibilities as teachers
- What’s next on TGS
Oct 30, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John Mearsheimer
- Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational
- How small states deal with world powers
- If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s?
- John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just
- The risk of escalation
- Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West
- Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine?
- Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies?
- American Russophobia didn’t cause the war, but it’s not helping
- John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal
- The foreign policy establishment’s grip on both Democrats and Republicans
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