John McWhorter – Demons, Anti-Heroes, and Villains
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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Video Links
1:33 Demonization on the right and the left
6:23 Is Trump’s election the nail in the coffin for DEI?
13:50 John: It’s no use pretending that racism in America is as bad as it was 50 years ago
16:33 Ground News ad
18:36 Has Elon Musk “encouraged” or “permitted” more racism on X?
19:30 John: It’s a tragedy that Jordan Neely died, but he needed to be restrained
30:12 If Daniel Penny had been a cop
34:05 ACTA ad
36:18 The glorification of Luigi Mangione
47:06 Cheering for the villain
55:43 Will New York remain a sanctuary city?
Recorded December 13, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT column, “How to Dangerously Misread a Very Important Verdict”
Briahna Joy Gray and Nathan Robinson on Luigi Mangione
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com. |
| 0:06.6 | As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter,, exclusive content and other benefits. Thank you. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey, John. Hey, Glenn. This is Glenn Lowry, and you are watching or listening or both |
| 0:31.0 | to The Glenn Show. John McWhorter teaches at Columbia University and writes for the New York |
| 0:36.6 | Times. He's my conversation partner. |
| 0:38.6 | They call it The Glenn Show, but it's really kind of the Glenn and John show. |
| 0:42.8 | Every other week we talk. |
| 0:44.7 | Once a month, we answer for paying subscribers' questions. |
| 0:48.7 | We're talking today, and welcome, John. |
| 0:52.8 | Thank you, Glenn. |
| 0:54.0 | Good to be here. We're at the end of the year, John. Thank you, Glenn. Good to be here. |
| 0:56.1 | At the end of the year, John, |
| 0:57.6 | do you have any wisdom about |
| 1:00.7 | any kind of summary observations |
| 1:04.9 | about 2024 |
| 1:07.5 | that strike you as worthy of sharing with the audience? |
| 1:12.0 | I'm not the most anniversary slash celebratory of people for about 18 different reasons. |
| 1:22.4 | And so I don't think naturally in terms of what has it been like in 2024. |
| 1:28.3 | And there's also a part of me that thinks, |
| 1:29.3 | why would it have been like anything |
| 1:31.3 | in that particular stretch of time, |
| 1:33.3 | despite what the calendar makes it look like? |
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