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0:00 Happy 60th, John!
2:20 2020 in hindsight
12:05 Ground News ad
14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window?
18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right?
29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk
34:14 Glenn’s new book idea
41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Joy Reid
48:05 The purging of the woke remnant
51:33 The responsibilities of the black intellectual
58:27 Glenn: There is meaning in blackness
Recorded October 6, 2025
Links and Readings
Glenn and John’s first discussion of George Floyd, from May 2020
Pete Hegseth’s speech before US military leadership
The Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Atlantic essay, “The Other Martyr”
Glenn’s October 3rd livestream, with Nikita Petrov and Robert Patton-Spruill
Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s NYT conversation following the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Coates’s 2015 Atlantic essay, “Letter to My Son”
Glenn’s recent conversation with Jason Riley on the life and work of Thomas Sowell
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