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0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship
4:11 Black and conservative in Reagan’s America
8:30 The social science hall of fame
12:45 Jews, assimilation, and the quantitative revolution
17:56 Human universalism vs. ethno-national particularity
21:42 Historicizing “the Jew”
23:47 Danny: Larry Summers can’t see outside his own neoliberal paradigm
27:50 Are we entering a period of, as Marx wrote, “mutual ruin”?
30:46 Is capitalism leading us toward nuclear war?
37:18 What the Manhattan Institute incident taught Glenn about his own book
42:02 Glenn: “I’m rethinking everything”
46:40 Is the right reverting to a pre-New Deal political paradigm?
51:37 Is Israel a reversion to an Early Modern model of nation-building?
58:07 American Jews’s role in Israel’s creation and perpetuation
1:03:04 Why Glenn previously censored himself on Gaza
1:09:30 Glenn: So far, I’m disappointed in Trump
Recorded August 6, 2025
Links and Readings
Danny and Derek’s podcast, American Prestige
Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship
John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
Corey Robin’s book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Clarence Thomas and Me”
Seth Schwartz’s book, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhamad
Omar El Akkad’s book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Glenn’s post, “I Was Fired by the Manhattan Institute. Here’s Why.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message
Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch’s book, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
Avi Shlaim’s book, Genocide in Gaza: Israel, Hamas, and the Long War on Palestine
Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Glenn’s conversation with Beinart
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