Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This is a free segment from a two-hour livestream of The Glenn Show. To watch the whole thing, become a full subscriber. You’ll get access to all TGS content, including video of livestreams, audience Q&As with me and John McWhorter, and lots of other great content. The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience supported. Thank you for all you do. In this TGS Live segment, Glenn Loury and TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill discuss Larr...
Dec 12, 2025•51 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 On this recording of last week's livestream, we discuss my conversation with a Nigerian development economist, Trump's moves against Venezuela, Pete Hegseth's boat strikes, flooding and winter weather in Gaza, and Bernie Sanders's call for government regulation of AI. Last week, Larry Summers stepped back from teaching at Harvard and was banned for life ...
Dec 08, 2025•2 min
The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported. Become a subscriber and join the conversation at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Paul: The past shows us there’s a basis for hope for this country 3:40 The origins of Paul’s new book, American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now 11:07 Is the push-pull between liberation struggles and institutional resistance a uniquely American phenomenon? 13:31 Ground News ad 15:39 The black freedom struggle as a temp...
Dec 05, 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 Since we’ve got the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of the week, I’m releasing the first half of the conversation to everyone today instead of this Friday. For access to the entire conversation, including the Q&A, become a full subscriber. This episode's central topic: the vulgarity of our present discourse . Though “vulgarity” doesn’t quite capture ...
Nov 24, 2025•46 min
The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported. To become a full subscriber and receive even more great TGS content, sign up here . Video Links 0:00 Howard’s new book, The Projects: A New History of Public Housing 5:58 The failed utopianism of American public housing 12:04 The dispossession of urban African American communities 14:54 Ground News ad 16:40 Did reformers have a reason for demolishing the slums? 22:01 Changing the culture of public housing 30:13 What’s working in public housin...
Nov 21, 2025•52 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 my latest livestream, TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill and I talk about rising tensions with Venezuela , New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his proposed policies, Jeffrey Epstein wreaking havoc from beyond the grave, Nick Fuentes’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show and ideological rifts on the right, my conception of Black Patriotism ...
Nov 17, 2025•2 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Charles’s new book, Taking Religious Seriously 8:31 Why Charles finds the idea of divine creation plausible 13:54 Charles’s “road to Damascus” moment 19:25 The appeal of Christianity 24:51 The evidence for life after death 31:38 Charles: “The relative positions of science and religion have flipped” 36:42 The trouble with scientism 40:17 Glenn’s steps toward and away from religion 51:04 Was The Bell Curve putting making a ...
Nov 14, 2025•59 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 The first half of the show consists of a pre-recorded interview with political scientist Charles Murray . He’s best known for books like Losing Ground and The Bell Curve —controversial though they may have been, they were grounded in the empirical methods that characterize modern social science . His new book, Taking Religion Seriously , is a somewhat su...
Nov 10, 2025•2 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Watch and listen to the full, 2-hour episode: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/tgs-live-democrats-leadership-crisis Video Links 0:00 John’s misgivings about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Zionism 7:22 Is anti-Zionism reducible to “good black people vs. bad white people”? 11:53 Ground News ad 13:40 Democrats try to pull out of a death spiral 20:05 John: If Trump can end some wars, I’ll take it 22:49 What do Kamala Harris fans see in her? 30:09 Her...
Nov 07, 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 Last Friday, John McWhorter and I took our ongoing conversation into new territory: we streamed it live. Eighteen years into our partnership, and we’re still finding ways to keep it fresh! In the first half of the show, we talk about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s position on Israel , which John believes is merely woke moralism . Whil...
Nov 03, 2025•18 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week’s conference in honor of Thomas Sowell was the culmination of a long year of anticipation, planning, reading, and thinking. In this long excerpt from my most recent livestream, I talk with my editor Mark Sussman about the conference events and my own contributions. I explain the importance of Friedrich Von Hayek to Sowell’s thought and work, and how Sowell extended Hayek’s work. The actor-writer Clifton Duncan drops in to talk a...
Oct 31, 2025•1 hr 5 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 edition of TGS Live, I talk about the events of the conference, my contribution, and one of the ideas informing my new book project . The conference honored the past accomplishments of Thomas Sowell, but it also pointed to the future . I heard the effects of Sowell’s writing and thinking coursing through vital new work, I met the two young winner...
Oct 27, 2025•5 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that a new civil war may be coming to the US. Is he trying to warn us? Or is he purposefully stoking the fire? Glenn takes Tucker to task. Today’s episode is just one segment from last week’s livestream. If you missed it and want to watch the full recording , click below to become a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported , so to those of us who are already full subscribers, l...
Oct 24, 2025•36 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 Note: Due to the AWS outage, many online services experienced disruptions throughout Monday. To ensure that everyone receives the episode, I thought it best to hold the episode until Amazon fixed the problem. Apologies for the delay. In this edition of the livestream, we're talking about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, creative destruction, nuclear wa...
Oct 21, 2025•7 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Happy 60th, John! 2:20 2020 in hindsight 12:05 Ground News ad 14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window? 18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right? 29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk 34:14 Glenn’s new book idea 41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Joy Reid 48:05 The purging of the woke remnant 51:33 The responsibilities of the black i...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This week on The Glenn Show, Robert Patton-Spruill and I get into a detailed analysis of a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein . The show begins as a debate on their divergent reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk , expressed in a New York Times column by Klein and a Vanity Fair piece by Coates. I find Coates’s smug, morally hectoring characterization of Kirk as a hate monger hard to stomach. As much as I admire ...
Oct 10, 2025•1 hr 5 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Last Friday’s livestream was a hot one. Today I’m posting the video for all who missed it (you have to be a paid subscriber to hear the full version now, but everybody else will get it on Friday). But trust me, this is appointment viewing. I’ll be at Stanford later this week for a conference on the work of Thomas Sowell. But the livestream will return the week following. In the first half of the stream, Nikita ...
Oct 06, 2025•2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Note: Links and info for my next livestream, which is happening this Friday, October 3 at 1:00 PM EDT , can be found at the end of this post.
Oct 01, 2025•12 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Normally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast , so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full subscriber, consider becoming one by going here . We at The Glenn Show are almost entirely subscribe...
Sep 30, 2025•1 hr 55 min
The Glenn Show is almost entirely listener supported. We need your help in order to keep bringing you the conversations you can't hear anywhere else. To get early episodes and much, much more, become a full subscriber at my Substack. You can keep tabs on Clifton’s progress and support his work at his Substack, Becoming Thomas Sowell . Video Links 0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter 3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and the collapse of the“bluegeois” paradigm 9:47 Ground News ad 11:30 Ideological gatekeeping in the arts...
Sep 26, 2025•54 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 Q&A, John McWhorter and I take questions on troubled black communities, the N-word, issues on which we've changed our minds, ratcheting down political tensions in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, and how we handle personal security. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported. If you like what you hear, head over to my...
Sep 24, 2025•8 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 Friday, I hosted a livestream featuring Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and call-ins from viewers. Once again, our topic is the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We talk about my own cancelation by the Manhattan Institute , warding off the tyranny of the majority , the worrisome comments of truly powerful people like Elon Musk, JD Van...
Sep 21, 2025•4 min
Support The Glenn Show at https:/.glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Why Marc thinks nothing works 6:45 Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs? 12:50 Penn Station and public interest logjams 20:29 Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work 28:17 Two progressive conceptions of power 33:03 Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power 39:05 Ok, nothing works. So how do we get things working? 51:28 Marc: We need a return to Hamiltonian ...
Sep 19, 2025•59 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 episode, co-hosted with my editor Mark Sussman, I talk with viewers about the murders of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska , the “black crime” canard, the effects of immigration on black employment , and other weighty topics. It wasn’t all doom and gloom , though. A call from Richard Kim—a newly tenured professor of philosophy at Loyola University ...
Sep 14, 2025•9 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 The upcoming Hoover Institution conference honoring Thomas Sowell 5:37 Sowell’s apprentice work at the University of Chicago 12:58 Ground News ad 14:45 Hayek’s influence on Sowell 19:55 Jason: No one is smarter than the market 24:58 The unconstrained vision vs. the constrained vision 33:04 Sowell’s contribution to economic literacy 37:44 Sowell’s tough early life and his path to Marx ] 47:55 Jason: Sowell’s willingness to...
Sep 12, 2025•1 hr 4 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 On this week's livestream, Nikita and I are joined by filmmaker, professor, master distiller, and "housing provider" Robert Patton-Spruill. And he does not disappoint. He begins by informing me of a connection between us: his father , then a professor of acting and directing at Boston University, used to smoke weed in front of my house . From there we ge...
Sep 07, 2025•10 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 What Thomas Sowell means to Emily 3:54 What’s the difference between a conservative and a classical liberal? 10:59 Ground News ad 12:45 Sowell’s interventions in price theory and microeconomics 19:31 The parallel careers of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams 24:51 Emily: Trump is not fulfilling Sowell’s vision of liberty 33:37 A Sowellian critique of expert-driven COVID policies 45:08 The risks of uncertainty in Trump’s ec...
Sep 05, 2025•1 hr 8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com For the full episode and to support The Glenn Show, visit https://glennloury.substack.com On this recording of my latest livestream, I sit down with my editor, Mark Sussman. Inspired by a recent memo posted by liberal moderate think tank Third Way, Mark and I talk a bit about the communicative dynamics of progressive nomenclature , e.g., “chestfeeding” rather than “breastfeeding” and other awkward neologisms. C...
Sep 03, 2025•3 min
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com 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 How woke campus culture degrades mental health 5:47 The rise of “microaggressions” ' 8:21 The harms caused by discourses of harm 13:47 The digital lives of children 19:08 Why Courtney and Ted produced Coddling themselves 24:...
Aug 29, 2025•52 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 edition of the Q&A, Glenn and John take questions on MLK and white moderates, audience capture, civilian casualties in Gaza, "I have to do X" vs. "I get to do X," Trump's performance as president, the role of trustees and administration in determining university policy, and race and genes....
Aug 27, 2025•6 min
