The Glenn Show Cornel West – The Black Intellectual in a Declining Empire
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0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence
2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative”
9:34 Ground News ad
11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason
19:33 The Loury family legacy
25:01 Does race still matter?
34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire
45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black community
51:42 Keep the funk, and die with a smile on your face
55:40 The Democratic Party plantation
Recorded July 18, 2025
Links and Readings
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Toni Morrison’s book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Ralph Ellison’s book, Shadow and Act
Thomas Sowell’s book, The Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message
Cornel’s book, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight against Imperialism
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Mahalia Jackson’s rendition of Clara Ward’s, “How I Got Over”
John Coltrane’s album, A Love Supreme
Niall Ferguson’s book, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brother’s Karamazov
Joseph Conrad’s novel, Victory: An Island Tale
Cornel’s 2024 Gifford Lectures
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