Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 1:08 John’s work with Braver Angels 8:16 How Braver Angels gets its business done 13:09 Trying to bridge the partisan divide 20:27 Do some issues require taking sides? 27:37 Braver Angels's approach to the immigration issue 31:37 John: “Trump is more symptom than cause” 38:47 Are some political conflicts unavoidable? 41:38 John: “What...
Aug 02, 2024•54 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com John and Glenn are back for the latest Q&A session, where they take questions asked by Substack subscribers. Topics include antisemitism, Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Kamala Harris's entry into same, and dinosaurs.
Jul 31, 2024•5 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this excerpt from the Memoir Tapes—recordings that served as the basis for Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative —Glenn describes the baroque procedures he would use in order to buy and cook crack.
Jul 28, 2024•54 sec
2:19 John apologizes for his previous statement about Trump and assassination, and Glenn reaffirms their friendship 7:21 Glenn: “We literally dodged a bullet” 9:09 John: Going MAGA is taking the easy political route 11:06 Glenn: There are good reasons to support some of Trump’s policies, if not his rhetoric 18:57 Does the 2024 election have a “summer of 2020” vibe? 23:38 Ground News ad 25:58 The fantasy Kamala Harris / Corey Booker ticket 33:27 Is “Make America Nice Again” a compelling campaign ...
Jul 26, 2024•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and the team discuss the use of independent podcasts as platforms for world leaders and the use and misuse of AI translations and voice simulations.
Jul 21, 2024•2 min
Buy Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 2:29 Have we already forgotten the horror of October 7? 9:22 Ben: We can’t ignore the loss of innocent life in Gaza 13:58 “From the river to the sea” and “all lives matter” 22:00 Celebrating the deaths of Israelis 26:31 Drawing the line at BDS 33:05 Glenn: If you want free speech, prepare to be uncomfortable 37:44 Columbia University ad...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min
1:18 John: Biden probably should not be running for president 7:47 Who’s running the country? 11:17 Presidential b******t 13:35 Ground News ad 15:56 Is Kamala up to the big job? 22:44 Kamala’s questionable climb to the top 27:53 The NYT Editorial Board’s surprising call for Biden to drop out 33:50 Trump at Gettysburg 35:45 Trump’s victory is now more probable. But is it more defensible? 40:42 Interrogating the “elitist backlash” interpretation of Trumpism 45:43 How should Dems proceed in a post-...
Jul 12, 2024•50 min
0:00 Intro 1:28 Biden’s abysmal debate performance 5:01 Billionaire survivalists 12:53 So you made it to your luxury bunker. Now what? 16:22 The postapocalyptic war of all against all 21:29 Is the very existence of billionaires the real doomsday scenario? 26:20 The doomsday tax 32:24 Will the bunker dwellers have a reason to live? 40:39 The problem of government after nuclear holocaust 46:08 The literal bunker mentality 52:08 Was Mark responsible for Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall? Who can say for...
Jul 05, 2024•57 min
0:00 Great writing is “a marriage of life and honesty” 3:20 Glenn: I am my book’s primary audience 8:00 Glenn the Rationalist vs Glenn the Believer 18:00 How much did Glenn’s socio-economic status affect his sense of black belonging? 24:26 The radical rhetoric of privileged African Americans 29:38 Against reparations 33:57 A raised fist, but not a hand out 40:27 Colorblindness in theory and practice 50:11 Is race orthodoxy the first step on the road to totalitarianism? 1:03:01 Self-reliance and ...
Jun 30, 2024•1 hr 11 min
0:00 Why the different format? 4:04 Joe asks John to account for his “emotional and irrational conclusions” about Trump and his recent conviction 15:28 Ground News ad 17:49 Did John really mean it when he implied he hoped someone would assassinate Trump? 23:00 Lauren wants John to justify his “casual endorsement” of gender fluidity in pronoun usage 32:37 Jerry asks why “external factors” like poverty are often used to explain lagging African American scholastic performance, those factors haven’t...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min
0:00 Glenn II returns to The Glenn Show 2:17 Glenn II: Dad, you’re not really a “conservative” in the present-day sense of the term 13:20 Glenn and Glenn II agree that the “systemic racism” argument is overblown but disagree over what to do about it 22:04 What social conditions lead to the kind of behavior Glenn often condemns? 31:36 The luck and privilege that allowed Glenn to recover from his mistakes 39:19 Glenn II: “I found myself getting angry at someone who doesn’t exist anymore” 46:59 The...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 11 min
ORDER 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 Glenn and John’s summer plans 3:56 Glenn’s forthcoming book on self-censorship 9:53 John’s forthcoming book on pronouns 17:25 Ground News ad 19:45 Inside the audiobook recording process 21:13 Why John isn’t celebrating Trump’s conviction 27:34 What’s so “monstrous” about Trump? 32:17 Is Trump demonizing immigrants or proposing se...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min
ORDER 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 Josh got Glenn started in podcasting 3:05 Early career advice to Glenn: Don’t be an a*****e 6:30 A recent loss in Josh’s life 8:36 Did Trump’s prosecution and conviction set a dangerous precedent? 15:37 Biden’s uninspiring presidential campaign 19:38 Josh: Trump is “an enemy of and a threat to … fundamental political values” ...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 16 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com After a two-month hiatus, John and I are back for a Q&A session. This time around, as an experiment, we asked subscribers to submit non-political questions. Let’s see what you came up with.
Jun 05, 2024•8 min
ORDER 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 A message from Glenn 1:14 Unsettling the “Settled Questions,” Glenn Loury & John McWhorter 2:59 The Race and IQ Question, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter 12:19 Facing Reality, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray 21:40 The IQ Taboo, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax 31:08 Debate with an Embattled Racial Realist, Glenn Loury & Amy Wa...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Order 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 Intro 2:50 “I got arrested driving a stolen car ...” 9:27 The Regal Auntie Eloise and the Bug-Eyed Uncle Moonie 23:17 “There was a lot of pain that the blood of Jesus was invoked to cover ...” 39:38 Winners & Losers 50:31 Words I Think of When Remembering My Mother This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ...
May 24, 2024•1 hr
ORDER 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 end of a tumultuous semester 4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests 9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine? 16:40 Ground News ad 18:41 Has Israel gone too far in Gaza? 22:32 Should students be forced to listen to protests that might offend them? 35...
May 17, 2024•47 min
Click the timestamp to go to the indicated clip in this YouTube video, click the title to go to the video from which the clip was pulled 0:00 : Intro from Glenn 2:15 : Cops and Race - May 29, 2020 10:09 : The Viruses - June 9, 2020 16:39 : A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation - June 3, 2020 21:14 : The Slippery Slope to Hell - April 23, 2021 27:10 : What Made George Floyd? - June 23, 2022 34:21 : The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality - April 18, 2022 41:38 : The Truth about G...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 52 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 A message from Glenn 3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world 12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books 13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance” 18:40 The “mission creep” of identity politics 24:23 Tyler Austin Harper University’s admissions policy 28:44 Does diversity contribute ...
May 03, 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 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway 4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions … 12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions 19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020 23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal ju...
Apr 26, 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 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater 30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central pla...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 39 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 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin 5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy 9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats 17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech? 21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex 28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect 35...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min
A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe
Apr 11, 2024•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 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
