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Video Links
0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship
4:11 Black and conservative in Reagan’s America
8:30 The social science hall of fame
12:45 Jews, assimilation, and the quantitative revolution
17:56 Human universalism vs. ethno-national particularity
21:42 Historicizing “the Jew”
23:47 Danny: Larry Summers can’t see outside his own neoliberal paradigm
27:50 Are we entering a period of, as Marx wrote, “mutual ruin”?
30:46 Is capitalism leading us toward nuclear war?
37:18 What the Manhattan Institute incident taught Glenn about his own book
42:02 Glenn: “I’m rethinking everything”
46:40 Is the right reverting to a pre-New Deal political paradigm?
51:37 Is Israel a reversion to an Early Modern model of nation-building?
58:07 American Jews’s role in Israel’s creation and perpetuation
1:03:04 Why Glenn previously censored himself on Gaza
1:09:30 Glenn: So far, I’m disappointed in Trump
Recorded August 6, 2025
Links and Readings
Danny and Derek’s podcast, American Prestige
Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship
John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
Corey Robin’s book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
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