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
0:00 Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational 6:55 How small states deal with world powers 10:13 If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? 16:40 John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just 21:58 The risk of escalation 29:26 Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West 33:51 Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? 39:57 Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? 45:45 American ...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 6 min
0:00 The blowback from Coleman’s TED Talk 8:50 Did TED intentionally throttle promotion for Coleman’s talk? 17:08 John’s trouble with TED while promoting Woke Racism 20:21 Coleman’s forthcoming book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America 29:17 Race in public and private life 43:49 Closure on the TED affair 45:14 What are the goals of each side in the Israel-Palestine conflict? 51:58 Will the Israeli military response simply restart the cycle of violence and resentment? 1:0...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min
0:00 Introduction by Greg Burnep 4:27 What does affirmative action mean in 2023? 11:06 Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” 18:21 Diversity’s double-talk 31:18 Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? 34:33 Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems 41:16 Affirmative action is an elite problem 48:48 Affirmative action as an insurance policy 57:42 The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries 1:04:14 Glenn: Aff...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 36 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer subscriber questions.
Oct 11, 2023•14 min
0:00 What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? 3:31 Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist 12:08 CRT’s racial power-grab 18:06 Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? 23:10 Disguising failure as victimology 32:15 Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing 39:58 The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal 51:00 John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” 56:40 Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine 1:04:31 The shame of the Kendi ...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 12 min
0:00 How Sabby got her start on YouTube 6:18 What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? 11:31 Is the US sliding into fascism? 19:26 The tension between race and class on the left 27:15 Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men 32:39 The military-industrial complex and climate change 42:07 Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops 51:20 Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration 54:18 Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another 59:46 Sabby: “We sh...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 11 min
0:00 Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” 6:30 Affirmative action in spirit and practice 13:18 Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? 19:17 The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action 22:47 Re-weighting and funding the admissions process 32:28 How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? 38:23 Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? 44:42 Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity 48:10 ...
Sep 22, 2023•53 min
