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John McWhorter – Inside the Ibram X. Kendi Collapse

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 61 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 Glenn and John’s summer plans

3:56 Glenn’s forthcoming book on self-censorship

9:53 John’s forthcoming book on pronouns

17:25 Ground News ad

19:45 Inside the audiobook recording process

21:13 Why John isn’t celebrating Trump’s conviction

27:34 What’s so “monstrous” about Trump?

32:17 Is Trump demonizing immigrants or proposing sensible border regulation?

39:17 Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center

44:42 Does Kendi’s fall mark the end of the woke moment?

49:15 The willful incomprehension directed at Byron Donalds

55:11 Joe Biden’s outdated speech at Morehouse

Recorded June 8, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s 1994 essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Henry Frankfurt’s book, On B******t

Glenn and John’s conversation with Mark Goldblatt

Rachel Poser’s New York Times Magazine piece, “Ibram X. Kendi Faces a Reckoning of His Own”

Herbert Guttman’s book, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Joe Biden’s commencement address at Morehouse



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I teach at Brown University, and I'm John Paulson

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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, which sponsors the Glensha.

0:56.0

I'm here with John McWarter, who is a professor at Columbia University and who writes regularly for the New York Times.

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He appears here every other week as a conversation partner.

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Welcome, John.

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Thank you, Glenn.

1:08.5

Good to be here.

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Good to have you. We missed out on our last bi-weekly appearance two weeks ago because I wasn't feeling very well with the back injury. I'm better. I want you to know. Still recovering from surgery, but out now walking and doing my exercises,

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strengthening my core, doing my squats and stretches and all of that.

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Fantastic.

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Trying to recover.

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You have to.

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How I think's with you.

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