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0:00 Howard’s new book, The Projects: A New History of Public Housing
5:58 The failed utopianism of American public housing
12:04 The dispossession of urban African American communities
14:54 Ground News ad
16:40 Did reformers have a reason for demolishing the slums?
22:01 Changing the cul...
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In my latest livestream, TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill and I talk about rising tensions with Venezuela, New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his proposed policies, Jeffrey Epstein wreaking havoc from beyond the grave, Nick Fuentes’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s sh...
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0:00 Charles’s new book, Taking Religious Seriously
8:31 Why Charles finds the idea of divine creation plausible
13:54 Charles’s “road to Damascus” moment
19:25 The appeal of Christianity
24:51 The evidence for life after death
31:38 Charles: “The relative positions of science and religion have flipped”
36:42 The trouble with scientism
40:17 Glenn’s steps toward and awa...
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The first half of the show consists of a pre-recorded interview with political scientist Charles Murray. He’s best known for books like Losing Ground and The Bell Curve—controversial though they may have been, they were grounded in the empirical methods that characterize modern soci...
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0:00 John’s misgivings about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Zionism
7:22 Is anti-Zionism reducible to “good black people vs. bad white people”?
11:53 Ground News ad
13:40 Democrats try to pull out of a death spiral
20:05 John: If Trump can end some wars, I’ll take...
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Last Friday, John McWhorter and I took our ongoing conversation into new territory: we streamed it live. Eighteen years into our partnership, and we’re still finding ways to keep it fresh!
In the first half of the show, we talk about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’...
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Last week’s conference in honor of Thomas Sowell was the culmination of a long year of anticipation, planning, reading, and thinking. In this long excerpt from my most recent livestream, I talk with my editor Mark Sussman about the conference events and my own contributions. I explain the importance of Friedrich Von Hayek to Sowell’s thought and work, and how Sowell extended ...
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In this edition of TGS Live, I talk about the events of the conference, my contribution, and one of the ideas informing my new book project. The conference honored the past accomplishments of Thomas Sowell, but it also pointed to the future. I heard the effects of Sowell’s writing a...
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Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that a new civil war may be coming to the US. Is he trying to warn us? Or is he purposefully stoking the fire? Glenn takes Tucker to task.
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Note: Due to the AWS outage, many online services experienced disruptions throughout Monday. To ensure that everyone receives the episode, I thought it best to hold the episode until Amazon fixed the problem. Apologies for the delay.
In this edition of the livestream, we're talking a...
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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 purgin...
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This week on The Glenn Show, Robert Patton-Spruill and I get into a detailed analysis of a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein. The show begins as a debate on their divergent reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, expressed in a New York Times column by Klein and a Vanity Fair piece by Coates. I find Coates’s smug, morally hectoring characterization ...
Last Friday’s livestream was a hot one. Today I’m posting the video for all who missed it (you have to be a paid subscriber to hear the full version now, but everybody else will get it on Friday). But trust me, this is appointment viewing. I’ll be at Stanford later this week for a conference on the work of Thomas Sowell. But the livestrea...
Note: Links and info for my next livestream, which is happening this Friday, October 3 at 1:00 PM EDT, can be found at the end of this post.
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Normally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast, so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full subscriber, consider becoming one by ...
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0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter
3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and the collapse of the“bluegeois” paradigm
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In our latest Q&A, John McWhorter and I take questions on troubled black communities, the N-word, issues on which we've changed our minds, ratcheting down political tensions in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, and how we handle personal security.
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Last Friday, I hosted a livestream featuring Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and call-ins from viewers. Once again, our topic is the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
We talk about my own cancelation by the Manhattan Institute, warding off the tyranny of the majority,...
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0:00 Why Marc thinks nothing works
6:45 Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs?
12:50 Penn Station and public interest logjams
20:29 Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work
28:17 Two progressive conceptions of power
33:03 Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power
39:05 Ok, nothing works. So how do we get thi...
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