Stephanie Lepp – Reframing the Big Questions
Episode description
Order Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:20 Stephanie’s new video series, Faces of X
4:18 Glenn: “You’re taking all the fun out of the culture war”
7:30 Could we have had modernity without capitalism?
17:28 Glenn: You’re taking a side in the debate without admitting it
20:35 What comes after “heterodoxy”?
24:10 Stephanie: Seeing race as a lie may be the greatest reparation of all
32:32 Glenn: Calling race a construction doesn’t get us “past race”
38:23 Race in the next century
42:42 Transcending race without abandoning it
46:20 Awe and humility as spiritual necessities
Recorded August 13, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn’s previous TGS episode with Stephanie
Find Stephanie on X: @stephlepp
Glenn’s 2016 conversation with Stephanie on Reckonings
Faces of X, “Can We Reframe the Capitalism Debate”
Faces of X, “Can We Reframe the Race Debate”
Glenn’s conversation with Greg Thomas, “A Future for Black Tradition”
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