The Troubling Romanticization of Violent Antiheroes

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0:00 Intro

1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain

2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”

9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse

12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”

19:17 Ground News ad

21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right

26:24 The hard truths of global competition

30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?

36:09 ACTA ad

38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status

44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline

46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?

Recorded January 5, 2025

Links and Readings

Charles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Matt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal style

Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship

Richard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

Trailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy

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