John McWhorter – Is DEI on Its Way Out?
Episode description
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: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin
6:50 Has DEI taken a hit after the Gay controversy?
13:50 When “DEI” really means “racial preferences”
22:12 The case of Neri Oxman
23:52 John: Bill Ackman looks “absurd”
26:47 Three cheers for John’s dinosaurs
28:22 Is Glenn really a “black conservative”?
31:11 The three dimensions of black conservatism
37:50 Black elites and immigration
42:35 Ibram X. Kendi undeterred
44:48 Roland Fryer is still standing
46:48 Is Amy Wax getting railroaded by Penn?
Recorded January 27, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “We Need a New Word for ‘Plagiarism’”
Elon Musk’s DEI airline post on X
Adolph Reed’s essay, “‘What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?’: The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual” (originally published in the Village Voice, April 11, 1995)
Wilfred Reilly’s comparative IQ post on X
Recording of Amy Wax’s FIRE webinar
Glenn’s December 2021 episode with Amy Wax
Glenn’s August 2022 episode with Amy Wax
Charles Murray’s book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Race, Gender, and Class
Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray
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