John McWhorter – Campus Protests at Semester's End
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
ORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The end of a tumultuous semester
4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests
9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine?
16:40 Ground News ad
18:41 Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?
22:32 Should students be forced to listen to protests that might offend them?
35:11 Glenn’s book is out this week!
41:11 An update on Glenn’s recovery and hospital cuisine
Recorded May 11, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice”
John’s NYT piece, “The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did”
John’s NYT piece, “Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?”
Coleman Hughes and Robert Wright debate Israel-Palestine
Pamela Paul’s NYT piece on Glenn, “He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.”
WSJ’s review of Late Admissions
Tunku Varadarajan’s 2020 WSJ profile of Glenn
WaPo’s review of Late Admissions
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| 0:46.2 | Hey John, what's up man? |
| 0:47.6 | How you doing? |
| 0:49.4 | So good to see you again. |
| 0:51.7 | Long time, no see, Glen Lowry here, the Glen show with John McWarter every other week, |
| 0:57.0 | sponsored by the Manhattan Institute, I teach at Brown University. |
| 1:01.0 | John's a professor of Columbia University, |
| 1:03.0 | he writes for the New York Times. |
| 1:04.0 | So, yeah, I'm back from back surgery. |
| 1:08.0 | How, how are you? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, I'm doing the show. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm doing interviews about the book that's coming, |
| 1:16.0 | going to be published on Tuesday, |
| 1:18.0 | that we're speaking on Saturday. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm getting my grades in for my undergraduate seminar on race and inequality first year students here at Brown, 20 of them fresh-faced. |
| 1:32.0 | They haven't seen me in a while because I've been in at Brown, 20 of them fresh-faced. |
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