The Glenn Show

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 does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King's belief in “the content of our character” ... What would King say to Claudine Gay? ... King's radicalism ... John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist ... The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College ... How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal ... Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard” ... How DEI's dominance has improved John's home media set-up ... John's upcoming cabaret show ...

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 and public health ... Are public employee unions constitutional? ... Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” ... Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too ... Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip's case? ...

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 ... Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty ... How attempts to silence Tabia backfired ... Tabia's broad vision of diversity ... Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee ...

A new documentary about George Floyd's death raises new questions ... John: “We've been lied to” about George Floyd's death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? ... Glenn: George Floyd was no hero ... The burning of Minneapolis's 3rd Precinct ... Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? ... Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America? ...

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 ... Why the Democratic Party doesn't like Erec ... How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community ... Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college ... What is rhetoric, anyway? ...

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 worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics ... The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams ... The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” ... The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding ... If not liberalism, then what? ... Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart ...

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 post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha's defense of universalism ...

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 revolution ... How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution ... The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran ... The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture ... The internal and external pressures on Iran ... The amorality of foreign policy ...

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 them define us. ... Glenn: We're standing on the precipice of something catastrophic ... John's proposal for the US's role in Israel's domestic conflict ... Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? ... Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? ... Glenn and John's responsibilities as teachers ... What's next on TGS ...

Why John thinks Russia's invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia's action were rational, were the US's? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just ... The risk of escalation ... Zelensky's expert manipulation of the West ... Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? ... Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? ... American Russophobia didn't cause the war, but it's not helping ... John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal ... The foreign policy establishment's grip on both Democrats and Republicans ...

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 say discrimination is allowed at military academies? ... Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems ... Affirmative action is an elite problem ... Affirmative action as an insurance policy ... The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries ... Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it's time to stop ... Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action? ... Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions? ... Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education? ... Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university? ... Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action? ...

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? ... Disguising failure as victimology ... Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing ... The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal ... John: “I'm embarrassed for Boston University” ... Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine ... The shame of the Kendi scandal ...

How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats' “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Donald Trump's rising popularity among black men ... The military-industrial complex and climate change ... Sabby's argument for worker co-ops ... Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration ... Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another ... Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine” ... How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests ...

Tyler's concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can't we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action ... Re-weighting and funding the admissions process ... How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? ... Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? ... Tyler's scholarly work about the end of humanity ... Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati ...

Biden's new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep's new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with claims that education is resegregating ... Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? ... Shep's book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education ... Glenn's “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans ... Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy ...

Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman's story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry ... Is wokeness on the wane? ... What John just doesn't get about Carol Swain ... A Democrat by any other name ... John makes a wild prediction about Trump ...

Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The redefinition of white supremacy ... Deracializing the crime debate ... Carol's new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World ... Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another ... Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson ... What affirmative action did right ...

A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute ... Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? ...

Haim's history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire's lingua franca ... Haim's riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in the other ... Haim: Ukraine's sovereignty and national identity must be respected ... Is the two-state solution dead? ...

The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienced his own cancelation ... America's exportation of wokeness ... Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? ... John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives ...

How Jay's position on affirmative action changed ... Jay: I can't see the virtue in affirmative action as it's practiced ... Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? ... The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework ... Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? ... Why so little outrage over the SCOTUS affirmative action decision? ... When students internalize artificial trauma narratives ... America can't economically decouple itself from China. Will anti-China rhetoric wane? ... What will and won't change in the wake of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ... Isn't there some value to diversity in education? ...

Peter's role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case ... Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? ... Why Peter got interested in affirmative action ... Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it ... Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions ... The brilliance of Roland Fryer ... Campus diversity after affirmative action ...

How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Matt's new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Cornel West's Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed ... What's worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? ... Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin” ... Was affirmative action ever necessary? ... Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchens's universalism ... Hitchens's “fearless liberalism” ...

John: Let's be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action ... Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn't violate the 14th Amendment? ... Why are we so focused on elite institutions? ... John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences” ... “You're pulling the ladder up behind you” is an invalid critique ... John: The fact that racism exists does not justify changing standards ... Why Roland Fryer thinks we should put our money where our mouth is on race and education ... Will the post-Students for Fair Admissions future turn into a Hardship Olympics? ...

The problem with scientific consensus ... Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” ... Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs ... Persuading science skeptics ... How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again? ... Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely ... Are some ideas too dangerous to test? ... Jay: Fauci's blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him ...

Why Cornel is running for president ... How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home ... Cornel's pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters ... Is there tension between Cornel's commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class? ... The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism ... Might Cornel inadvertently hand the election to the Republicans? ... Cornel: Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are wrong, but they're sincere ... Why Cornel thinks the US is partially culpable for the Ukraine War ... Should Palestinians recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel? ... Cornel's ideas about the US border ...

Why Jonathan's course “Culture in America” got canceled ... The fragility of liberal arts education ... Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom ... Is there a future for free inquiry? ... John: Black middle-class students don't need affirmative action ... Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism? ... The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy ...

Inside the mind of a crack columnist ... The blowback from Norman Finkelstein's TGS appearance ... Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? ... How did MLK become MLK? ... What's in a name when that name is “Woodrow Wilson”? ... Glenn: “Clarence Thomas's name should be on public school buildings” ...

Charles's argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism ... Donique: Teaching African American history doesn't require critical race theory ... Charles: We are the 97%! ... How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history ... What does Florida's Stop WOKE Act actually say? ... What's wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history? ... Sexuality's ever-shifting Overton window ... Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling ... Expanding the canon of historic black figures ...

John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” ... How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields ... Jordan Neely didn't deserve to die … ... … but the New York subway is getting scary ... Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” ... A possible left-wing objection to reparations ... Glenn goes ham on reparations ...

Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? ... Norman's conflict with Alan Dershowitz ... Is Israel an apartheid state? ... Identifying with Paul Robeson ... Norman's new book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! ... Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam” ... What's become of Angela Davis? ... Cornel West's chosen path ... Obama's self-proclaimed “neat trick” ... The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama ... South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics ... Would Bernie have won in 2016? ...

Mark Goldblatt's recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism ... Wokeism's roots in postmodern thought ... The “mysticism” of woke thinking ... Learning from Christine Blasey Ford's accusations ... John breaks his silence on transgender issues ... The political consequences of subjectivism ... Why Mark thinks transgender people are mentally disordered ... What does the T have to do with the LGB? ... Mark: Transgender people deserve respect ... Distinguishing between strategy and reality ...

The gigification of academia ... Is education just another commodity? ... What do historians do? ... Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel ... The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university ... Using (and getting used by) new technology ... An alternate history of global economic development ... The end of the American century ... Daniel's critique of US support for Ukraine ...

What's wrong with cancelation? ... A defense of Charles Murray ... Cancelation and the closet ... Jonathan's book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth ... Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor ... Is Trump an agent of disinformation? ... What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common ... Why Jonathan is hopeful about the constitution of knowledge ...

The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan's speech at Stanford Law School ... Why did people have a problem with Duncan? ... Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges ... The necessity of free inquiry and reasoned discourse ... What it's like being a FedSoc conservative at Stanford Law ... The fallout from the Duncan protests ... The vulgarity of the insults hurled at Duncan ... The role of conservatives at Stanford ...

John's recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher ... The rigors of the lecture circuit ... The difference between equity and equality ... How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else? ... The new black bourgeoisie ... Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative? ... John sets the record straight on his dancing skills ...

What led Jim to the forefront of physics ... Jim explains supersymmetry ... Is there racism in the sciences? ... The role of culture and imagination in the sciences ... The scientific “big bang” in Europe ... How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores ... Jim: “Genius” is a verb ... Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation ...

John's awkward run-in at the farmer's market ... Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043? ... Regret, doubt, and going against the tide ... How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles ... Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled? ... What's going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy? ...

Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality ... How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history ... Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle ... Humanity's phase shift into modernity ... Inequality and the formation of institutions ... The deep links between geography and institutions ... Africa, Asia, and the trials of diversity ...

Woke religion or woke cult? ... Does suffering confer authority on the sufferer? ... A world without “anti-Black domination” ... Is there an alternative to the criminal justice system? ... Domination and the purpose of the university ... How Vincent's Telluride Association seminar blew up ... The narrowness of the social justice framework ... Glenn and John's encounters with fans ... Should Black Studies exist? ...

Why Delano is a conservative ... Delano's critique of Raphael Warnock and the “Afristocracy” ... Delano: “The designer is the definer” ... Abortion and Black lives ... Are abortion rights necessary to protect women's rights? ... Delano: Government is no substitute for fatherhood ... Can we reweave the social fabric? ...

The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing ... The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing ... What set off the cops? ... Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded ... Should we get rid of qualified immunity? ... Policing and white supremacy ... Peter: We on the left have ceded law and order to the Trumpian right ... Tyre Nichols's funeral ... John: I disagree with Sharpton, Crump, and Dyson, but they're sincere ...

Ernie's work as an organizer ... Tension, polarization, and reconciliation ... The drama of organizing ... The definition of power ... Ernesto's work getting running water and sewers to border communities ... Market activity vs. market ideology ... What's wrong with meritocracy? ... Does identitarianism stand in the way of reconciliation? ...

Glenn and John go to Cambridge ... The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy ... John: “Physics is physics” ... The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies ... Is “getting past race” more trouble than it's worth? ... Is Joe Biden patronizing black people? ... How a black musical changed the sound of Broadway ...

Steven's best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters ... Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief” ... The complexities of climate change models ... Should we worry about rising sea levels? ... Hurricanes, tornados, and other extreme weather events ... Is a zero-emissions goal worth the cost? ... How to fix climate science ... Are the Paris Accords viable? ... The coming climate backlash ...

A brief intro from Glenn ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The unified field theory of non-whiteness ... An honest conversation about crime ... Glenn's birthday menu ... It's time to choose a side ... Clarence Thomas, black icon ... Policing Joe Rogan ... By any means necessary? ...

Some of Michael's key works ... Meritocratic ideals and meritocratic fantasies ... The animus against elites ... Shouldn't innovators reap their rewards? ... Does more profit create more value? ... Renewing the dignity of work ... The uses of punishment ... Our responsibility to national and global communities ... Michael: Diversity has “monopolized” discussion of affirmative action ... China's reception of Michael's critique of meritocracy ...

The principles of jazz ... “Deracialization Now” ... Becoming Omni-American ... What's wrong with racial identification? ... Black victimization and cultural memory ... The transformations of James Baldwin ... Convincing white people to deracialize ... Takeaways from 2022 ... 2023's big Supreme Court decisions ...

Why Glenn does The Glenn Show ... Glenn: “If I was going to vote for Trump, I wouldn't tell you” ... “The cat is out of the bag” on election denial ... Modeling epistemic modesty ... Why is race such an important issue for Glenn? ... The Old Glenn and the New Glenn ... Confronting the past ... Putting “the funk” on the story of your life ...

Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West's antisemitism? ... The two words you never say together ... Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US? ... The mythological black past and the realities of the present ... How necessary is rootedness to the modern human experience? ... How we make race, how race makes us ...

Is capitalism a “winner take all” system? ... Why does the word “socialism” make so many Americans afraid? ... Has neoliberalism been beneficial for the US? ... Capitalism's role in rising living standards around the world ... Are higher interest rates the only solution to inflation? ... Can the market eradicate employment discrimination? ... Why is the rent too damn high? ... Can there be a kinder, gentler form of capitalism? ... Closing statements ...