Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 1:28 John corrects some Wikipedia-driven misconceptions about his work 4:12 ChatGPT pays homage to Glenn and John 6:41 John: JD Vance actually is what I’m merely accused of being 17:59 Ground News ad 20:08 Are there any true sellouts among black conservatives? 28:32 And what is a sellout, anyway? 36:01 What goes on between Clarence an...
Sep 28, 2024•59 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 0:14 Larry Kotlikoff for President? 5:40 Larry’s plan to save social security 9:30 Reincentivizing work, saving, and staying in the US 14:55 Rewriting the story about income and labor 21:08 Why a 10% tariff could amount to a new national sales tax or worse 23:33 Glenn: Trade with other nations is not a zero-sum game 29:15 Taxing billi...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Martyn Clark asks how economists factor idiosyncratic, unpredictable human behavior into their abstract modeling. Young Törless asks Glenn to weigh in on the presidential candidates’ approaches to—or avoidance of—the problem of the national debt. BB asks Glenn which economic theories or concepts haven’t stood the test of time. Stan asks what three policies would make the biggest difference in improving the live...
Sep 15, 2024•7 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 0:59 Glenn debuts his new studio 2:34 Life after academia 13:02 The challenge of having a lot of time on your hands 18:10 John’s new musical endeavors 20:20 Ground News ad 22:38 John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words 25:07 Glenn and John form an impromptu book club 29:43 The first class of post...
Sep 13, 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 0:59 How Harry met Glenn 3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men? 11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural 18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support 25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed” 31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit ...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 3 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 1:28 John heads back to the linguistic woodshed 3:55 Glenn’s nascent retirement plan 4:23 Glenn and John’s late summer reading 11:58 The “joy” of the Democratic National Convention 17:47 Ground News ad 20:11 The oratorical panache of the Obamas 25:37 John: What’s the point of all this performative joy? 30:16 Keywords from the DNC: “We...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, Glenn and John tackle questions about supporting the Democratic Party, the departure of Columbia University's president, the Gaza War, Kamala Harris's promise to fight "price gouging" and more.
Aug 28, 2024•13 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 0:20 Stephanie’s new video series, Faces of X 4:18 Glenn: “You’re taking all the fun out of the culture war” 7:30 Could we have had modernity without capitalism? 17:28 Glenn: You’re taking a side in the debate without admitting it 20:35 What comes after “heterodoxy”? 24:10 Stephanie: Seeing race as a lie may be the greatest reparatio...
Aug 23, 2024•57 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 1:05 John: A Kamala Harris presidency won’t improve the discourse on race 9:12 Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama 14:44 Why Glenn just can’t excited about a Harris presidency 18:07 Ground News 20:40 How Kamala measures up to Obama under the spotlight 23:07 Kamala’s code switching 25:50 Building the black political persona 33:51 W...
Aug 16, 2024•58 min
My lovely wife LaJuan and I appeared on the Due Dissidence podcast with Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, and we're re-presenting it here. You’ll hear us discuss my memoir and how all of our upbringings influenced our politics, free speech and the Gaza War protests, the decline of the Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Thomas, abortion, economic regulation, capitalism and socialism, Kamala Harris, Trumps’s appearance at the NABJ conference, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...
Aug 11, 2024•2 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 1:32 Glenn's intro 3:10 Glenn's case against the Democrats 14:06 Why is Cornel West running for president? 18:58 A black, conservative defense of Trumpism 25:29 A leftist analysis of Trump's rising popularity among black men 30:45 Glenn's early call for Biden to step down 36:25 Trump's debate style 41:36 Glenn: Biden is a "singularly ...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 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 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
