Transcending Identity and Educational Fulfillment

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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

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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