John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK
Episode description
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 College
29:58 How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal
32:47 Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”
35:57 How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up
41:41 John’s upcoming cabaret show
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “Claudine Gay Was Not Driven Out Because She Is Black”
Glenn’s conversation with Tabia Lee
“All’s Fair in Love and War” from Gold Diggers of 1937
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