The Glenn Show

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813491:28 John corrects some Wikipedia-driven misconceptions about his work 4:12 ChatGPT pays homage to Glenn and John 6:41 John: JD Vance actually is what I’m merely accused of being 17:59 Ground News ad 20:08 Are there any true sellouts among black conservatives? 28:32 And what is a sellout, anyway? 36:01 What goes on between Clarence and Ginni Thomas? 40:19 An addition to the book club reading list 42:08 ACTA ad 43:54 Remembering Linda Datcher Loury 49:00 Should having children be the norm? 56:34 Glenn sightings in the wild 57:32 Working without a netRecorded September 23, 2024Links and ReadingsGlenn’s Wikipedia pageJohn’s Wikipedia pageJohn’s NYT column, “Why JD Vance Dropped into My Inbox”JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisJohn’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black AmericaRandall Kennedy’s book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial BetrayalDavid Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A LifeDavid Lodge’s novel, Changing Places: A Tale of Two CampusesBarbara and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American LifePercival Everett’s novel, JamesRF Kuang’s novel, Babel, or the Necessity of ViolenceClint Smith’s Atlantic piece, “George Floyd Was Also a Father” 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

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:14 Larry Kotlikoff for President? 5:40 Larry’s plan to save social security 9:30 Reincentivizing work, saving, and staying in the US 14:55 Rewriting the story about income and labor 21:08 Why a 10% tariff could amount to a new national sales tax or worse 23:33 Glenn: Trade with other nations is not a zero-sum game 29:15 Taxing billionaires on consumption rather than income 34:43 The price of shame 38:40 Maintaining competitive conditions with universal health insurance 44:49 What’s causing inflation? 52:26 How big of a problem is the national debt?Recorded September 4, 2024Links and ReadingsLarry’s SubstackLarry’s homepageLarry’s book, with Philip Moeller and Paul Solman, Getting What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social SecurityLarry’s book, with Scott Burns, The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic FutureLarry’s book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose BankingLarry’s financial planning program, MaxiFiLarry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s EconomyLarry’s book, The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans 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.comMartyn Clark asks how economists factor idiosyncratic, unpredictable human behavior into their abstract modeling. Young Törless asks Glenn to weigh in on the presidential candidates’ approaches to—or avoidance of—the problem of the national debt. BB asks Glenn which economic theories or concepts haven’t stood the test of time. Stan asks what three policies would make the biggest difference in improving the lives of black people. Eli asks if technological progress and our ever-increasing knowledge about the world may end up being a bad thing for humanity. Luke Englund asks if the conservative movement has compromised too much for the sake of Donald Trump. And finally, therealnewyorker asks what issues I would feel compelled to talk about if racial politics disappeared tomorrow.

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:59 Glenn debuts his new studio 2:34 Life after academia 13:02 The challenge of having a lot of time on your hands 18:10 John’s new musical endeavors 20:20 Ground News ad 22:38 John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words 25:07 Glenn and John form an impromptu book club 29:43 The first class of post-Students for Fair Admissions college freshmen 36:22 Are black students being shut out of the upper echelons of American society? 40:33 The Supreme Court’s “indirect beneficial endowment” to HBCUs 46:42 Glenn: “The wheel is turning” on race politics in America 52:18 ACTA ad 54:26 Plagiarism in Robin DiAngelo’s dissertation 57:02 John: I don’t recognize the world that Danzy Senna and Ketanji Brown Jackson describe, even though I lived in it 1:04:07 Did Thomas Chatterton Williams really say what he said to Danzy Senna?Recorded September 8, 2024Links and ReadingsThe Rest Is History on Apple PodcastsPreorder John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little WordsDavid Kaiser’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023David Kaiser discusses his book States of the Union on TGSSari Nusseibeh’s memoir, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LifeDavid Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A LifeDanzy Senna’s novel, Colored TelevisionPercival Everett’s novel, JamesKetanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely OneJohn’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black AmericaMichelle Obama’s DNC speechThomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race 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

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:59 How Harry met Glenn 3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men? 11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural 18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support 25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed” 31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit all 35:22 Three ways to improve employment prospects 39:10 Glenn asks “the Chicago question” 42:09 Discrimination against ex-convicts 50:38 Immigration’s impact on black employment 53:29 Are too many people in prison? 56:07 Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generateRecorded August 20, 2024Links and ReadingsHarry and Glenn’s conversation about “racism, narratives, and backlash” with the Federal Reserve Bank of BostonHarry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, The Black Youth Employment CrisisMelissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindIsabel V. Sawhill’s book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without MarriageDouglas Harris’s book, Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American EducationGlenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts”William Julius Wilson’s book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions 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

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813491:28 John heads back to the linguistic woodshed 3:55 Glenn’s nascent retirement plan 4:23 Glenn and John’s late summer reading 11:58 The “joy” of the Democratic National Convention 17:47 Ground News ad 20:11 The oratorical panache of the Obamas25:37 John: What’s the point of all this performative joy? 30:16 Keywords from the DNC: “Weird” 34:17 Keywords from the DNC: “Freedom” 41:48 Keywords from the DNC: “Joy” 44:25 Keywords from the DNC: “Fight” 46:03 ACTA ad 47:52 Glenn’s distrust of Kamala’s candidacy 52:42 Why Glenn puts the “Hussein” in “Barack Hussein Obama” 56:04 RFK Jr’s endorsement of Donald Trump 1:04:51 Coming soon: Breakfast with the LourysRecorded August 25, 2024Links and ReadingsPercival Everett’s novel, JamesHarriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s CabinJames Baldwin’s essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir, Between the World and MeAlex Haley’s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyBarack Obama’s DNC speechMichelle Obama’s DNC speechOprah Winfrey’s DNC speechJohn’s NYT column, “The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works” 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.comIn this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, Glenn and John tackle questions about supporting the Democratic Party, the departure of Columbia University's president, the Gaza War, Kamala Harris's promise to fight "price gouging" and more.

Order Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:20 Stephanie’s new video series, Faces of X 4:18 Glenn: “You’re taking all the fun out of the culture war” 7:30 Could we have had modernity without capitalism? 17:28 Glenn: You’re taking a side in the debate without admitting it 20:35 What comes after “heterodoxy”? 24:10 Stephanie: Seeing race as a lie may be the greatest reparation of all 32:32 Glenn: Calling race a construction doesn’t get us “past race” 38:23 Race in the next century 42:42 Transcending race without abandoning it 46:20 Awe and humility as spiritual necessitiesRecorded August 13, 2024Links and ReadingsGlenn’s previous TGS episode with StephanieFind Stephanie on X: @stephleppGlenn’s 2016 conversation with Stephanie on ReckoningsFaces of XFaces of X, “Can We Reframe the Capitalism Debate”Faces of X, “Can We Reframe the Race Debate”Glenn’s conversation with Greg Thomas, “A Future for Black Tradition” 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

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813491:05 John: A Kamala Harris presidency won’t improve the discourse on race 9:12 Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama 14:44 Why Glenn just can’t excited about a Harris presidency 18:07 Ground News 20:40 How Kamala measures up to Obama under the spotlight 23:07 Kamala’s code switching 25:50 Building the black political persona 33:51 White Ladies and White Dudes for Kamala 40:39 Are there white Sonya Masseys? 45:55 ACTA 48:03 Walz’s war on “weird” 48:14 The Dems get their hands dirty 55:48 Trump’s near-death experience that wasn’tRecorded August 9, 2024Links and ReadingsBarack Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceTrump’s on-stage interview before the National Association of Black JournalistsNYT story about Trump’s alleged helicopter ride 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

My lovely wife LaJuan and I appeared on the Due Dissidence podcast with Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, and we're re-presenting it here. You’ll hear us discuss my memoir and how all of our upbringings influenced our politics, free speech and the Gaza War protests, the decline of the Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Thomas, abortion, economic regulation, capitalism and socialism, Kamala Harris, Trumps’s appearance at the NABJ conference, and more. 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