John McWhorter – Feeling the "Joy" at the DNC
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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1:28 John heads back to the linguistic woodshed
3:55 Glenn’s nascent retirement plan
4:23 Glenn and John’s late summer reading
11:58 The “joy” of the Democratic National Convention
17:47 Ground News ad
20:11 The oratorical panache of the Obamas
25:37 John: What’s the point of all this performative joy?
30:16 Keywords from the DNC: “Weird”
34:17 Keywords from the DNC: “Freedom”
41:48 Keywords from the DNC: “Joy”
44:25 Keywords from the DNC: “Fight”
46:03 ACTA ad
47:52 Glenn’s distrust of Kamala’s candidacy
52:42 Why Glenn puts the “Hussein” in “Barack Hussein Obama”
56:04 RFK Jr’s endorsement of Donald Trump
1:04:51 Coming soon: Breakfast with the Lourys
Recorded August 25, 2024
Links and Readings
Percival Everett’s novel, James
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
James Baldwin’s essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir, Between the World and Me
Alex Haley’s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family
John’s NYT column, “The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works”
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