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0:00 How Josh got Glenn started in podcasting
3:05 Early career advice to Glenn: Don’t be an a*****e
6:30 A recent loss in Josh’s life
8:36 Did Trump’s prosecution and conviction set a dangerous precedent?
15:37 Biden’s uninspiring presidential campaign
19:38 Josh: Trump is “an enemy of and a threat to … fundamental political values”
23:22 The problem of the meritocracy
28:54 The “shame” Glenn felt after his speech at a synagogue
39:19 The things left unsaid about the Gaza War
47:22 Were Glenn’s fears about reaction to his thoughts about Gaza overblown?
51:23 Can mistaken ad hominem inferences about audiences initiate self-censorship on the part of speakers?
55:55 When Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salaam when to Berkeley
1:00:58 Josh: Campus protests have basically been a good thing
1:09:33 Josh’s thoughts on what John Rawls might have said about the State of Israel
Recorded June 1, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn’s writing for Boston Review
Glenn and Josh’s first Bloggingheads conversation
Michael Lind’s UnHerd piece, “Trump’s Conviction Is an Assault on Democracy”
Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit
Michael Sandel’s Boston Review piece, “How Markets Crowd Out Morals”
Michael Sandel discusses The Tyranny of Merit on TGS
Glenn’s Substack post, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”
Glenn’s 1994 essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”
Glenn’s Palm Beach Synagogue speech, “What Has Become of the Partnership between Black and Jews”
John Mearsheimer on TGS
Omer Bartov on TGS
Reihan Salam’s book, Melting Pot or Civil War?
The Kalven Committee Report
John Rawls’s book, A Theory of Justice
John Rawls’s book, The Law of Peoples
Josh’s essay, “Is There a Human Right to Democracy?”
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