The Glenn Show John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Becoming Thomas Sowell
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Video Links
0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter
3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and the collapse of the“bluegeois” paradigm
9:47 Ground News ad
11:30 Ideological gatekeeping in the arts
17:02 The Gamergate-ification of everything
25:50 John: Wokeness isn’t dead, it’s changed shape
33:11 Clifton’s one-man show in-progress, Becoming Thomas Sowell
35:21 Sowell at Cornell
40:10 The challenge to Sowell’s conception of “the civil rights vision”
43:36 The pressures of bringing Sowell to the stage
45:58 Clifton: I think of Sowell as “the people’s intellectual”
Recorded September 20, 2025
Links and Readings
John and Clifton’s previous conversation on The Glenn Show
Clifton’s Substack, Becoming Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell’s book, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Sowell’s book, Knowledge and Decisions
Sowell’s book, Black Education: Myths and Tragedies
Donald Downs’s book, Cornell ‘69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University
Sowell’s book, On Classical Economics
Mark Whitaker’s book, Saying It Loud: 1966—the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
Sowell’s book, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
Jason Riley’s latest appearance on TGS
Jason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey
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