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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...
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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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In this episode, co-hosted with my editor Mark Sussman, I talk with viewers about the murders of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska, the “black crime” canard, the effects of immigration on black employment, and other weighty topics. It wasn’t all doom and gloom, though. A call from Ric...
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0:00 The upcoming Hoover Institution conference honoring Thomas Sowell
5:37 Sowell’s apprentice work at the University of Chicago
12:58 Ground News ad
14:45 Hayek’s influence on Sowell
19:55 Jason: No one is smarter than the market
24:58 The unconstrained vision vs. the constrained vision
33:04 Sowell’s contribution to economic literacy
37:44 Sowell’s tough early l...
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On this week's livestream, Nikita and I are joined by filmmaker, professor, master distiller, and "housing provider" Robert Patton-Spruill. And he does not disappoint. He begins by informing me of a connection between us: his father, then a professor of acting and directing at Bosto...
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0:00 What Thomas Sowell means to Emily
3:54 What’s the difference between a conservative and a classical liberal?
10:59 Ground News ad
12:45 Sowell’s interventions in price theory and microeconomics
19:31 The parallel careers of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams
24:51 Emily: Trump is not fulfilling Sowell’s vision of liberty
33:37 A Sowellian critique of expert-dri...
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On this recording of my latest livestream, I sit down with my editor, Mark Sussman. Inspired by a recent memo posted by liberal moderate think tank Third Way, Mark and I talk a bit about the communicative dynamics of progressive nomenclature, e.g., “c...
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0:00 How woke campus culture degrades mental health
5:47 The rise of “microaggressions”
'8:21 The harms caused by discourses of harm
13:47 The digital lives of children
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In this edition of the Q&A, Glenn and John take questions on MLK and white moderates, audience capture, civilian casualties in Gaza, "I have to do X" vs. "I get to do X," Trump's performance as president, the role of trustees and administration in determining university policy, and ...
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The livestreaming experiment continues here at TGS. I never know what’s going to come at me. I’m operating outside my comfort zone. Of course, that’s what makes it fun. The callers often ask me to weigh in on a whole range of subjects I’d never think up on my own, like embryo s...
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This episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek's podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/join
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In our latest livestream, TGS editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission and its rather unpleasant but compelling critique of modern existence, after which we take questions from viewers and callers. We get into some unexpected territory, like life ...
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0:00 John: Not all of Trump’s demands on Columbia are crazy
3:45 Are the accusations of antisemitism at Columbia apt?
12:43 Ground News ad
14:22 The shifting public perception of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
24:30 The historical legacy of Gaza’s starvation
27:40 Glenn: There are ways to destroy Israel without an army
32:21 The lull in American race politics
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In this conversation, my editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Kamala Harris’s forthcoming book, 107 Days, an...
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0:00 Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration
4:11 Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual
13:34 How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions?
25:31 What really matters in college admissions?
29:47 Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s
34:16 Rajiv: If the Trump administration wants to ...
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