This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Subscribe to The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com The livestreaming experiment continues here at TGS. I never know what’s going to come at me. I’m operating outside my comfort zone. Of course, that’s what makes it fun. The callers often ask me to weigh in on a whole range of subjects I’d never think up on my own, like embryo screening and the frustrations of Connecticut landlords . (And speaking of...
Aug 24, 2025•14 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek's podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/join Order Glenn's new book, Self-Censorship , here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww Video Links 0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship 4:1...
Aug 22, 2025•1 hr 14 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In our latest livestream, TGS editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission and its rather unpleasant but compelling critique of modern existence , after which we take questions from viewers and callers . We get into some unexpected territory, like life after death (I don’t believe in it), the existence of alien intelligenc...
Aug 17, 2025•5 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 John: Not all of Trump’s demands on Columbia are crazy 3:45 Are the accusations of antisemitism at Columbia apt? 12:43 Ground News ad 14:22 The shifting public perception of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza 24:30 The historical legacy of Gaza’s starvation 27:40 Glenn: There are ways to destroy Israel without an army 32:21 The lull in American race politics 38:22 Has the race debate devolved to Sidney Sweeney’s jeans? 47:27...
Aug 15, 2025•56 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Self-Censorship here or wherever you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww In this conversation, my editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Kamala Harris’s forthcoming book, 107 Days , and the dire state of publishing. I’ve been reading a lot of Thomas ...
Aug 10, 2025•12 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration 4:11 Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual 13:34 How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions? 25:31 What really matters in college admissions? 29:47 Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s 34:16 Rajiv: If the Trump administration wants to destroy universities, it has the resources to do it 40:07 ...
Aug 08, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In lieu of a regular episode this week, I’m presenting a version of our latest livestream. Last week we debuted what I hope will be an ongoing feature of these livestreams: viewer call-ins. Nikita has been working on setting this up for a while now, and as you’ll see, we’ve still got some kinks to work out. We were able to take a number of calls from viewers, and on that score, this experiment was a resounding success. Anybody can tune in...
Aug 01, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com It’s the middle of the summer, it’s hot, and John McWhorter and I are back for another Substack subscriber only Q&A session. In this episode, we take questions about leadership in the black community, critical listening, Percival Everett's novel James , immigration, white women studying black women's history, right-wing identity politics, and the Free Press . The Glenn Show is supported by listeners like yo...
Jul 30, 2025•8 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence 2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative” 9:34 Ground News ad 11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason 19:33 The Loury family legacy 25:01 Does race still matter? 34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire 45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black community 51:42 Keep the funk, and die with a smile on your face 55:40 The Democratic Party plantation R...
Jul 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC Democratic primaries 12:07 Ground News ad 14:05 The War on Terror and the War in Gaza 28:54 Should Trump fear Mamdani? 32:02 Glenn: Trump is running the table 42:26 John: Glenn, you’re getting caught up in the Trump Show 48:05 Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and the legacy of conservatism 53:56 Glenn’s encounters with Willian F. Buckley 59:30 Remembering Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom Recorded ...
Jul 18, 2025•1 hr 7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com My latest book, Self-Censorship , is coming out in a couple weeks, and I’m excited to share it with you. As a kind of apéritif, Mark Sussman and I livestreamed our wide-ranging discussion of all things self-censorious. We talk about the book, of course, but also the economics of addiction, the trouble with streaming music, the best and worst of airplane ...
Jul 13, 2025•11 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument 6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”? 8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings 14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke 22:10 The comedian as gadfly 24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech? 31:23 Harvard Derangement Syndrome 37:13 FIRE’s defense of Amy Wax 39:59 Using Title IX to restrict ...
Jul 11, 2025•58 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com I’m back with my creative director Nikita Petrov on our latest livestream. As you may know, Nikita is Russian. He’s spent some time in the US, but he’s still got a lot of questions about how we do things here and why. This was recorded the day before the Independence Day holiday, and we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to address some of Nikita’...
Jul 06, 2025•18 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 How Jens got interested in American gun violence 2:45 What’s “unexpected” about the origins of gun violence? 5:29 Race and the culture of gun violence 9:30 Ground News ad 11:20 Are high rates of gun violence a cultural issue or an equilibrium? 17:09 Is urban gun violence the result of rational behavior? 24:34 The link between Kahnemanian “fast thinking” and violent conflict 36:46 Are gun violence interruptions scalable? 4...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In my latest livestream with my editor Mark Sussman, we talk about the state of the academic labor market, teaching writing to undergrads, Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, the wisdom or folly of a federal minimum wage, the work of Thomas Sowell and upcoming conference in his honor, and race and economic...
Jul 03, 2025•15 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This month, John and I tackle questions about grade inflation, the Great Courses, Chapt GPT, race and public art, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine, the end of race-based affirmative action, Trump, Christopher Rufo, and my most recent appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show. The Glenn Show is supported by listeners like you. To watch and listen to the full ver...
Jun 23, 2025•9 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week, I did my second ever livestream, this time with my editor here at the Substack, Mark Sussman. We covered a lot of ground: self-censorship in both intimate and public settings, the golden age of MIT, the death of the influential economist Stanley Fischer, political correctness then and now, the use of the term “blood libel,” immigration, labor ...
Jun 16, 2025•15 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Last week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov , live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel , the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica . We went for two hours and covered a lot of ground: LaJuan and I reported on our visit to Tucker Carlson’s “barn” in Maine, and I speculated about ...
Jun 10, 2025•2 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com The Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why. 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
Jun 02, 2025•7 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show 4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed? 11:31 Ground News ad 13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus 17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study? 28:40 John’s trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture 35:50 Will the museum survive Trump’s assault on DE...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency” 5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps 10:15 Solving the double-spending problem 15:58 The partisan divide on crypto 21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers 26:29 How crypto protocols create value 33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX 35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with weak or unstable currency 36:32 Memecoins: Buyer beware 41:07 Chin...
May 23, 2025•50 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”? 8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action 11:41 Ground News ad 13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend? 17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River 26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility 32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims? 35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparations argument 43:26 How do figures like Ibram X. Kendi and...
May 16, 2025•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby , and ethics in higher education....
May 14, 2025•18 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Censorship-Glenn-C-Loury/dp/1509567402/ref=sr_1_1?crid=223KUFY8BN0X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ar6rmRPzp7pEiJss0o1eUeLbLwOgX_qrXHtWjMS3_m_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.goECGgv0OxAPgLR8kNnsISu5AK6OSVoa5qWVmqRNqwY&dib_tag=se&keywords=self-censorship+glenn+c.+loury&qid=1746808862&sprefix=self-censor%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1 Video Links 0:43 Ross: Trump's econom...
May 09, 2025•58 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 00:31 Prefatory remarks 4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme 9:06 Ground News ad 11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought? 18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building 20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support? 23:05 The university’s role in public discourse 26:26 Was affirmative acti...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss. Check out this episode on Substack to see clips from Will's TikTok and instagram Follo...
Apr 27, 2025•5 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409 Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx 2:32 The new wokeness of the political right 8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts? 17:04 Russia’s motivations: Fear of NATO or imperial ambitions 21:...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown , diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on ca...
Apr 20, 2025•3 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, Self-Censorship . Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai ... Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without 9:50 Ground News ad 11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument 20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism 22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions 32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitmen...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Support The Glenn Show at http://glennloury.substack.com VIdeo Links 0:00 Intro 0:45 Why Trump’s tariffs alarm economists 8:18 Are the tariffs designed to offset Trump’s tax cuts? 11:30 Larry’s break with Senator Ron Johnson 14:16 Larry: We’re not in a trade war with other countries, we’re in a trade war with other people 22:44 Is Trump under the sway of a foreign power? 28:45 What measures should investors take to protect themselves from tariff-generated market volatility? 35:46 The possible si...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 4 min
