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Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law Mar 29, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn

4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself

10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”

18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment

24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI

34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?

43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’t

Recorded March 20, 2024

Links and Readings

Amy’s 2021 TGS appearance

Amy’s 2022 TGS appearance

The leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendations

Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles Murray

Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Amy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review

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John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race Mar 22, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West

3:32 John’s awards show allergy

6:41 The realness of American Fiction

14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision

21:56 The SATs are on their way back

23:23 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 colorblindness

41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?

46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?

51:08 Debating the presidential debates

Recorded March 16, 2024

Links and Readings

American Fiction trailer

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Rustin trailer

Bayard 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 America

Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994

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Matthew Martens – A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform Mar 15, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 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 help

Recorded February 28, 2024

Links and Readings

Matthew’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

Richard John Neuhaus’s book, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America

Philip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present

National Register of Exonerations

St. Irenaeus’s Against Heresies

Kellen Funk and Sandra Mayson’s Harvard Law Review article, “Bail at the Founding”

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Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs Mar 08, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 What makes an “elite”?

4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood

7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption

12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force

17:23 The uses of military discipline

22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman at Yale

24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital

29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police?

35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee

40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding

46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon

52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative”

58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction

Recorded February 19, 2024

Links and Readings

Rob’s memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob’s Substack

Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less”

Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford”

Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class

Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"

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John McWhorter & Shane Hachey – Crime and Disorder in Minneapolis Mar 01, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me

6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial?

16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for a confrontation with Ellison?

23:30 Shane’s account of civil decay in Minneapolis

29:24 Shane: The radicals are in charge

35:30 What’s causing the anti-police sentiment in Minneapolis

40:40 Violent crime in the George Floyd Square “autonomous zone”

49:39 Shane: Even liberals need to vote Republican in local Minneapolis elections

54:36 The Fani Willis issue in Georgia

Recorded February 24, 2024

Links and Readings

Keith Ellison’s book, Breaking the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

Glenn and John’s episode, “The Fall of Minneapolis Reconsidered”

Radley Balko’s response to Glenn, John, and Coleman Hughes

Rajiv Sethi and Brendan O’Flaherty book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crimes, and the Pursuit of Justice

Shane’s website

Shane’s Alpha News piece on the community meeting about the new Minneapolis Third Precinct location

Crime Watch Minneapolis’s X page

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago Feb 23, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy

3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society

10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status

18:29 Why Corey supports the police

21:47 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago

23:25 The Rooftop Pastor

25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism

29:56 Project HOOD

33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools

37:02 Class differences within the black community

Recorded January 31, 2024

Links and Readings

New Beginnings Church

Project HOOD

Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”

Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange

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Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode] Feb 18, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics

7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era

9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative

12:48 The two sides of black “progress”

17:24 Shermichael: Identity matters, even for conservatives

21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration

28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency

32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?

37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump

40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse

50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn

56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days

58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn

Recorded January 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)

Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired

Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse

Hit Strategies

American Cornerstone Institute

The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts

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John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered Feb 16, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue?

7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John

17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin?

19:55 Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?

25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics

28:26 The problem with colorblindness

36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”

43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around

52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

Recorded February 11, 2024

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”

Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis

Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix

Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd”

Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

The trailer for Rustin

Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”

A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

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Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus Feb 09, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses

4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine

9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test

12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem

18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”

21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir

25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling

27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now

30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets

42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree

46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists

49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates

51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings

56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success

Recorded January 26, 2024

Links and Readings

Noam Dworman’s TGS appearance

Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table

Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table

Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis

Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table

Benny Morris on Live from the Table

Tara Henley’s Lean Out

Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom

Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report

University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression

Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin

Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict

Rajiv and Brendan O’Flahery’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and Pursuit of Justice

Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”

Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”

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Noam Dworman – Friendship in a Time of War (Bonus Episode) Feb 04, 2024

Show notes

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:00 Why Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel

5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve

8:49 Loyalty among friends during the Gaza War

13:15 The blowback from Brown’s ceasefire letter

17:18 Talking about Israel across the ideological spectrum

19:42 Glenn: Loyalty tests are unreasonable

23:16 Trying to understand the human costs of war

26:26 Glenn: There is no decent alternative to a two-state solution

33:32 “Apartheid,” “genocide,” and other potentially unhelpful terms

39:29 Noam: Thank God for President Biden

44:13 Why Noam is worried about American attitudes toward Israel

49:08 Will the Gaza War end up strengthening Hamas?

56:08 The tone-deafness of some supporters of Israel

Recorded January 31, 2023

Links and Readings

Noam’s podcast, Live from the Table

The Glenn Show Live at the Comedy Cellar

Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar

Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray

The Brown University faculty’s ceasefire letter

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

Glenn’s most recent conversation with Robert Wright

Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Aaron Maté’s appearance on Noam’s podcast

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