John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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0:00 A message from Glenn
4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell
9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage
13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground
19:01 The lure of acting
22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater
30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art”
40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis
47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures
1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability
1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020
1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit?
1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker
Recorded April 13, 2024
Links & Reading
Clifton’s Substack, State of the Arts
Thomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line
Thomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey
Cheryl West’s play, Before It Hits Home
Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days
Donald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
Donald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
The Great Barrington Declaration
Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
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| 0:37.0 | Hello all, welcome to the Glenn show. I am John McQuarter and I am guest hosting for |
| 0:49.7 | Glenn Lowry while he is unhappily on the mend. |
| 0:54.4 | And what we're gonna do today |
| 0:56.0 | is we're gonna pretend that it's Glenn and me, |
| 0:58.4 | except it isn't, because it's me, |
| 1:01.1 | and Clifton Duncan, and we going to have a conversation about some crucial issues. |
| 1:06.1 | Clifton Duncan is an actor. Clifton Duncan is a |
| 1:15.0 | podcaster. Clifton Duncan is an experienced performer who has had a stage career |
| 1:18.0 | over much of the United States, including here in New York City. |
| 1:22.0 | And Clifton Duncan is... here in New York City. |
| 1:23.0 | And Clifton Duncan is someone who finds himself out of step |
| 1:27.5 | with certain received opinions |
| 1:30.0 | and would like to talk about these things with us. |
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