The Glenn Show

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show 4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed? 11:31 Ground News ad 13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus 17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study? 28:40 John’s trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture 35:50 Will the museum survive Trump’s assault on DEI? 44:47 Are Glenn and John complicit in anti-DEI overreach? 55:30 The racial animus question in anti-DEI reformRecorded on May 21, 2025Links and ReadingsGlenn’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s showThe Chronicle of Higher Education’s interview with GlennGlenn’s forthcoming book, Self-CensorshipGlenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black ConservativeJohn’s conversation with actor Clifton DuncanThe BBC’s 1973 production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, starring Lynn Redgrave and James VilliersKhalil Gibran Muhammad’s book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban AmericaVictor Herbert’s operetta, Babes in ToylandJohn’s NYT piece on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureGlenn’s conversation with Brown University student Alex Shieh This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency” 5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps 10:15 Solving the double-spending problem 15:58 The partisan divide on crypto 21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers 26:29 How crypto protocols create value 33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX 35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with weak or unstable currency 36:32 Memecoins: Buyer beware 41:07 China’s use of digital currency to expand its surveillance apparatus 47:35 Should a non-expert invest in crypto?Recorded May 15, 2025Links and ReadingsYaya and Emily Jin’s report, “China’s Digital Currency: Adding Financial Data to Digital Authoritarianism”Yaya podcast’s, DesignatedYaya’s audio thriller, The Jabbari Lincoln Files This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”?8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action11:41 Ground News ad13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend?17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims?35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparations argument43:26 How do figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones end up at the center of progressive discourse?Recorded May 7, 2025Links and ReadingsJason’s new book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to SucceedJason’s book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to SucceedJason’s book, False Black PowerJason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas SowellDerek Bok and William G. Bowen’s book, The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University AdmissionsMelissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindAn Amos & Andy YouTube playlistJulia pilot episodeTa-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an AntiracistThe NYT’s 1619 ProjectThe Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites Project This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby, and ethics in higher education.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Censorship-Glenn-C-Loury/dp/1509567402/ref=sr_1_1?crid=223KUFY8BN0X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ar6rmRPzp7pEiJss0o1eUeLbLwOgX_qrXHtWjMS3_m_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.goECGgv0OxAPgLR8kNnsISu5AK6OSVoa5qWVmqRNqwY&dib_tag=se&keywords=self-censorship+glenn+c.+loury&qid=1746808862&sprefix=self-censor%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1Video Links0:43 Ross: Trump's economic policies are the worst I've seen in my life 7:36 Glenn's new book, SELF-CENSORSHIP 12:00 Trump’s bid to become the most powerful person in the history of the world 21:17 The disruptive effects of tariffs, financial regulatory manipulation, and extraordinary debt levels 27:58 Ross: Alienating our allies is only going to strengthen China 33:41 Glenn: Those who lost out to globalization are getting their way 41:04 Will Trump heed economic warning signs? 48:10 Can Congress constrain Trump?Recorded April 19, 2025Links and ReadingsEdward Luce’s Financial Times piece, “Trump, Truss, and the ‘Moron Premium’”Larry Kotlikoff’s SubstackLarry Kotlikoff’s post, “30-Year TIPS Are Looking Mighty Attractive”Glenn’s most recent conversation with Larry KotlikoffMichael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 00:31 Prefatory remarks 4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme 9:06 Ground News ad 11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought? 18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building 20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support? 23:05 The university’s role in public discourse 26:26 Was affirmative action a success or a failure? 31:36 The partisan balance in education funding 42:21 The costs and benefits of tenure 50:09 Can education preserve democracy if students aren’t doing the reading? 1:01:59 Are we irrevocably polarized as a nation? 1:07:28 Q&A: You don’t seem as excited by Trump as you once were. What is disappointing you? 1:11:40 Q&A: If higher ed serves society, why do so many elite grads use their degrees to get rich? 1:16:01 Q&A: How do you teach diversity to students who’ve never spent time around people different from them? 1:19:15 Q&A: What’s the difference between contrarianism and provocation? 1:21:23 Q&A: Should fewer people go to college?Recorded April 22, 2025Links and ReadingsMichael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?John Stuart Mill’s book, On LibertyJohn Milton’a AreopagiticaAlan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s StudentsJohn’s new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little WordsGlenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black ConservativeThe Great CoursesFyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and PunishmentDostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers KaramazovLeo Tolsty’s novel, War and PeaceTolstoy’s novel, Anna KareninaPlato’s dialogue, The Republic This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss. Check out this episode on Substack to see clips from Will's TikTok and instagramFollow Will on Instagram and TikTok

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comPre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409Video Links0:00 Intro 1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx 2:32 The new wokeness of the political right 8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts? 17:04 Russia’s motivations: Fear of NATO or imperial ambitions 21:41 Danny: Zelenskyy made a huge misstep in the Oval Office 26:12 Does China have global security ambitions? 35:09 Ending the Middle East’s post-Ottoman redefinition 39:42 Danny: It’s gotta be rough to be Peter Beinart 43:46 Why we don’t need Hitler to explain Trump’s authoritarianism 56:29 Danny: We’ve been in the midst of a constitutional crisis since the 1940s 57:58 Can the nuclear taboo hold?Recorded April 19, 2025Links and ReadingsDanny’s podcast, American PrestigeKarl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page’s paper, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens”Walter Lippmann’s book, Public OpinionDanny’s book, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense IntellectualTranscript of Matt Lauer’s 1998 interview with Madeline AlbrightPaul Thomas Chamberlain’s book, The Cold War Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long PeaceLindsey O’Rourke’s book, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold WarPeter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A ReckoningGlenn’s conversation with Peter BeinartGlenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black ConservativeDanny’s Jacobin piece, “This Is America”James Whitman’s book, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race LawCarl Schmitt’s book, The Concept of the Political This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on campus.This bonus episode is available in its entirety to full subscribers, without whom The Glenn Show would not be possible. If you want to listen to the full version of this episode and our other bonus content—including monthly Q&As with John McWhorter—go to https://glennloury.substack.com and sign up.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comPre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, Self-Censorship. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai...Video Links0:00 Intro 1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without 9:50 Ground News ad 11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument 20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism 22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions 32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought? 39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism” 52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else 55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment 1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth 1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen SondheimRecorded April 12, 2025Links and ReadingsRobbie and Cornel’s new book, Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of DivisionPlato’s RepublicThomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsEugene Genovese’s book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves MadeAntonio Gramsci’s book, The Prison NotebooksWilliam Blake’s poem, “London”Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et RatioGenesis 22, King James VersionShakespeare’s HamletGlenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black ConservativeMandy Patinkin sings “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe