John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered
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 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue?
7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John
17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin?
19:55 Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?
25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics
28:26 The problem with colorblindness
36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”
43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around
52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin
Recorded February 11, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”
Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis
Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix
Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd”
Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
The trailer for Rustin
Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”
A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher
Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin
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