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Last week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov, live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel, the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica.
We went for two hours and covered a lot of ground: LaJuan and I reported on...
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The Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why.
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0:00 Intro
1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show
4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed?
11:31 Ground News ad
13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus
17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study?
28:40 John’s trip to the National Museum of African American History ...
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency”
5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps
10:15 Solving the double-spending problem
15:58 The partisan divide on crypto
21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers
26:29 How crypto protocols create value
33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with wea...
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0:00 Intro
1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”?
8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action
11:41 Ground News ad
13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend?
17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River
26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility
32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims?
35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparation...
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In this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby, and ethics in higher education.
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0:00 Intro
00:31 Prefatory remarks
4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme
9:06 Ground News ad
11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought?
18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building
20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support?
23:05 The u...
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In this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss.
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx
2:32 The new wokeness of the political right
8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts?
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In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on...
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0:00 Intro
1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without
9:50 Ground News ad
11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument
20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism
22:30 Reforming para-academic instit...
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Why Trump’s tariffs alarm economists
8:18 Are the tariffs designed to offset Trump’s tax cuts?
11:30 Larry’s break with Senator Ron Johnson
14:16 Larry: We’re not in a trade war with other countries, we’re in a trade war with other people
22:44 Is Trump under the sway of a foreign power?
28:45 What measures should investors take to protect themselves...
For the March 2025 Q&A, John and I take questions on getting outside our bubbles, the first hundred days of the second Trump administration, the Department of Education, contemporary black writers, race and advertising, the assumption of good faith, and undocumented immigration.
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0:00 Intro
1:03 How Rick feels being a “liberal maverick,” according to the NYT
4:18 Rick’s advocacy for class-based affirmative action
6:39 Rick: “The Trump administration has gone too far” by trying to eliminate racial diversity
13:02 Opening up the elite university’s old boys club
21:21 Will economic diversity in admissions come with test score disparities?
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0:36 How Rajiv saw Trump’s assault on elite higher ed coming
4:26 The Trump administration’s legitimate complaints against higher ed
9:41 Rajiv: The crackdown on campus protest would have happened even without the October 7 protest
17:10 How test scores can marry merit and diversity on college campuses
21:06 Glenn: Doesn’t SFFA v. Harvard justify JD Vance’s critici...
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I spent part of last week visiting Stanford University, and John is off taking care of business in Australia. The time difference, travel, and speaking obligations made scheduling a recording impossible. So this week, I’ve got something a little different for you. Instead of recording a conversation on the day’s news with John, I decided to record one on my own. In this episo...
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0:00 Intro
1:33 The relationships Peter has lost and gained
4:14 Why Peter thinks this is a “watershed” moment in Jewish history
6:50 Who can criticize Israel?
9:44 The challenge of October 7’s aftermath to Jewish self-understanding
15:54 Peter: Jews should support non-violent Palestinian protest, not criminalize it
20:12 Shouldn’t the Palestinians have taken the d...
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In this episode, Nikita, Mark, and I talk about steelmanning, what people want me to say about Gaza, what I want to say about Gaza, and why I offer disclaimers when I talk foreign policy.
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0:00 Intro
1:55 Did Trump and Vance bully Zelenskyy or give him a dose of reality?
5:16 Glenn: Trump is trying to wind down an unnecessary war
13:49 - Ground News ad
28:58 The “deep game” of European security
32:06 Glenn: America First appeals to me, World War III doesn’t
36:40 Teaching the reparations debate in a post-October 7 world
43:06 MSNBC axes Joy Reid’s sh...
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