0:00 Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled

9:07 The fragility of liberal arts education

17:24 Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom

27:44 Is there a future for free inquiry?

35:03 John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action

44:57 Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism?

52:35 The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy

Recorded June 17, 2023

Links and Readings

Alex Morey and Nadine Strossen’s FIRE article about Jonathan, “Who’s Allowed to Teach ‘Culture in America’?”

Barnard’s Center for Engaged Pedagogy

John’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Cornell Belcher’s book, A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America’s Racial-Aversion Crisis

Richard Rothstein’s Atlantic piece, “The Problem with Wealth-Based Affirmative Action”

John’s guest post, “Racial Preferences May End, but the Fight Will Continue”

Derrick Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Affirmative Distraction”

Randall Kennedy NYT guest essay, “The Truth Is, Many Americans Just Don’t Want Black People to Get Ahead”

Randall Kennedy’s Atlantic essay, “My Race Problem”

Randall Kennedy’s book, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

Randall Kennedy’s book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

John McWhorter and Randall Kennedy on The Glenn Show

John’s 2008 Bloggingheads conversation with Randall Kennedy

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