The Glenn Show

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 A message from Glenn3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance”18:40 The “mission creep” of identity politics24:23 Tyler Austin Harper University’s admissions policy28:44 Does diversity contribute to quality of education?35:18 The trouble with being “the black person” in class37:38 Diversity at Bates College, where Tyler teaches41:38 Night fishing with Tyler, insect collecting with John45:46 Tyler’s prolific social media presence48:38 Tyler’s five-year plan52:51 The turn away from obscurantism in the humanitiesRecorded April 28, 2024Links and ReadingsGlenn and John’s first conversation with TylerGlenn and John talk with Tyler and Daniel BessnerMary Shelley’s novel, The Last ManTyler’s NYT piece, “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions”Christopher Lasch’s book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing ExpectationsRichard Hanania’s book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity PoliticsGlenn’s conversation with Peter ArcidiaconoTyler’s X (formerly Twitter) accountTyler’s Atlantic piece, “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad”Jacques Derrida’s essay, “No Apocalypse, Not Now” 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions …12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 202023:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right?29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes?Recorded March 22, 2024Links and ReadingsCharles’s Substack, The Causal FallacyCharles’s City Journal piece, “Yes, New York’s Bail Reform Has Increased Crime”Charles and co-author Elias Neibart’s Manhattan Institute report, “Is Less Always More? The Unintended Consequences of New York State’s Parole Reform”Glenn’s conversation with Matthew MartensMatthew Martens’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian ProposalCharles and co-author Reihan Salam’s Atlantic piece, “We’re Underfunding the Police”Tom Wolfe’s book, The Bonfire of the VanitiesCharles’s Substack post, “The Police Unions Puzzle”Glenn’s conversation with Philip K. HowardPhilip K. Howard’s book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee UnionsCharles’s City Journal piece, “Combat the Drug Crisis” 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 A message from Glenn4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground19:01 The lure of acting22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art”40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 20201:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit?1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinkerRecorded April 13, 2024Links & ReadingClifton’s Substack, State of the ArtsThomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing LineThomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal OdysseyCheryl West’s play, Before It Hits HomeSuzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 DaysDonald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American FilmsDonald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network TelevisionThe Great Barrington DeclarationAndrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook42:04 What you can’t say about war45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracyRecorded March 21, 2024Links and ReadingsMichael’s Substack, PublicUniversity of AustinMichael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us AllMichael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin CitiesAndrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of TotalitarianismMartin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New MillenniumThe WPATH FilesJohn McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black AmericaErnest Becker’s book, The Denial of DeathGlenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing UpJonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental IllnessRob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social ClassGlenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson 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

A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month. 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools35:19 The redlining debate40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb”46:38 What’s causing low police morale?50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse todayRecorded March 30, 2024Links and ReadingsKeith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police ViolenceGlenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of MinneapolisGlenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC ChaixGlenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentaryRadley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One”Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two”Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three”Radley Balko’s response to Coleman HughesAlpha NewsRucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments”John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism”Equal Justice Initiative website 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.comGlenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’tRecorded March 20, 2024Links and ReadingsAmy’s 2021 TGS appearanceAmy’s 2022 TGS appearanceThe leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendationsGlenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles MurrayCharles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in AmericaAmy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West3:32 John’s awards show allergy6:41 The realness of American Fiction14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision21:56 The SATs are on their way back23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?51:08 Debating the presidential debatesRecorded March 16, 2024Links and ReadingsAmerican Fiction trailerPercival Everett’s novel, ErasureRustin trailerBayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind AmericaStanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994 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

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:00 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice 5:28 Loving the criminal offender 8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of marijuana? 14:59 Christianity and the legal use of force 20:39 Matthew: I cannot enter the public square without considering my faith 24:48 Determining justice in a fallen world 29:35 What’s wrong with criminal justice today? 31:48 The problem of prosecutorial immunity 38:43 Matthew’s take on George Floyd 43:16 Has the criminal justice system truly reformed itself on race matters?50:00 The denial of bail and the denial of justice 56:37 Matthew: We don’t have quick, accurate, reliable verdicts 1:02:41 Why Matthew opposes the death penalty “as currently practiced in the United States” 1:08:21 How ordinary Americans can helpRecorded February 28, 2024Links and ReadingsMatthew’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian ProposalRichard John Neuhaus’s book, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in AmericaPhilip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the PresentNational Register of ExonerationsSt. Irenaeus’s Against HeresiesKellen Funk and Sandra Mayson’s Harvard Law Review article, “Bail at the Founding” 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