John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now)

8:59 A ringing endorsement from John

10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024?

15:28 Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character”

16:20 What would King have thought of Claudine Gay?

20:20 King’s radicalism

25:54 John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist

28:10 The Tabia Lee affair at D’Anza Community College

29:58 How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal

32:47 Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”

35:57 How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up

41:41 John’s upcoming cabaret show

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “Claudine Gay Was Not Driven Out Because She Is Black”

Glenn’s conversation with Tabia Lee

“All’s Fair in Love and War” from Gold Diggers of 1937

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0:46.4	Everybody, hi there, this is Glenn Lowry.
0:48.4	You've tuned into the Glenn show.
0:51.0	I'm with John Mcwater, my conversation partner. I teach at Brown and I'm a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
0:58.0	John teaches at Columbia and he writes for the New York Times. We talked every other week,
1:03.2	Glyn and John.
1:05.0	Hello there, John.
1:06.0	Welcome back.
1:07.0	Hey, Glenn, how are you?
1:09.1	I'm doing famously well, John.
1:11.2	Famously well.
1:12.2	I have an announcement to make everybody.
1:15.0	May 14, 2024, Norton, W. W. Norton and Company, the venerable publication house.
1:25.0	We'll publish my memoir,
1:28.8	Late admissions, confessions of a Black Conservative, May 14, 2024, you think so?
1:37.0	Yeah, I really do, it's clever.
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