PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS 4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts 9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first 13:00 : Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists 16:40 How Ke...
Apr 05, 2024•58 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS....
Apr 03, 2024•11 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn 4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself 10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement” 18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment 24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI 34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts towar...
Mar 29, 2024•53 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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...
Mar 22, 2024•59 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 wi...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 17 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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? ...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 Geor...
Mar 01, 2024•59 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 c...
Feb 23, 2024•40 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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:...
Feb 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 ...
Feb 16, 2024•58 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 25:3...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 4 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 hu...
Feb 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 conservati...
Feb 02, 2024•58 min
Preorder Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 broke...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 8 min
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, Ro...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 9 min
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 Co...
Jan 15, 2024•43 min
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 th...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min
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 sh...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 8 min
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? 3...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min
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 c...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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 directo...
Dec 15, 2023•53 min
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 ...
Dec 08, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer Substack subscriber questions from November 2023.
Dec 06, 2023•6 sec
0:00 Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? 13:34 Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought 15:07 Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee 22:47 Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec 30:38 How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community 36:16 Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college 45:19 What is rhetoric, anyway? Recorded November 13, 2023 Links and Readings Erec’s...
Dec 01, 2023•55 min
0:00 The state of campus speech after 10/7 5:48 Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? 15:43 “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas 26:17 Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics 29:31 The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams 38:17 The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” 43:41 The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding 47:49 If not lib...
Nov 24, 2023•58 min
0:00 How Bob gave Glenn his start in podcasting 2:05 Is the Gaza War in Israel’s best interests … 11:46 … and if not, what should Israel have done in response to October 7? 18:06 How Hamas gained control of Gaza 26:53 Bob: Some in the Israeli government wouldn’t mind a wider war in the Middle East 36:46 What does “From the river to the sea” actually mean? 46:10 Bob: Every settlement in the West Bank is a war crime 54:20 The psychology of victimhood and retribution 1:00:37 The challenge of spirit...
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 12 min
0:35 A quick announcement 1:46 What led Yascha to write about identity 6:22 An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” 12:15 What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? 19:15 From postmodernism to post-civil rights 28:45 The three key claims of identity synthesis 36:02 What led up to the summer of 2020? 45:51 The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo 50:45 Yascha’s defense of universalism Recorded October 3, 2023 Links and Readings Yascha’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Stor...
Nov 17, 2023•56 min
0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century 6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions 11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? 16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution 26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution 32:29 The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran 36:31 The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran 45:01 Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture 48:51 The internal and external pressures on Iran 57...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer subscriber questions.
Nov 08, 2023•7 min
0:00 Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist 6:11 Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism 12:46 There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. 17:08 Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic 27:57 John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict 34:59 Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? 42:07 Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? 47...
Nov 03, 2023•54 min
