Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show Podcast
1) Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What...Show More
2) Getting Unions Out of Government (Glenn Loury & Philip Howard)
Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery ... What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? ... Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust ... The problems of national security a...Show More
3) An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee)
Tabia’s early career as a teacher ... Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director ... The antisemitism problem at De Anza ... The inescapable BIPOC binary ... From disagreement to deplatforming ... Wh...Show More
4) What Black America Needs to Thrive (Glenn Loury & Erec Smith)
Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ... ...Show More
5) Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)
The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish students w...Show More
6) The Identity Trap (Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk)
A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to pos...Show More
7) An American Martyr in Persia (Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan)
Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic...Show More
8) Thinking Through the Gaza War (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let the...Show More
9) A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee)
Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Court...Show More
10) The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik)
What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans...Show More
The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik)
1:00:00 | Oct 9th, 2023