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John McWhorter – Is Ta-Nehisi Coates Right about Israeli Apartheid?

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

1:12 The Vance-Walz debate

4:28 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book is brilliant

13:16 John and Coates’s ancient beef

15:31 Coates’s “blistering” critique of Zionism

18:22 Ground News ad

20:39 Do you have to solve the problem of “apartheid” in order to criticize it?

33:10 Glenn’s reappraisal of Coates (and John’s bemusement)

34:53 ACTA ad 36:39 Will the race card play for Eric Adams?

42:31 What has Eric Adams accomplished?

43:57 Why John defends Amy Wax

49:17 Glenn: Amy Wax gets to have her opinion

Recorded October 5, 2024

Links and Readings

The Vance-Walz VP debate

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Coleman Hughes’s Free Press review of The Message

Coates’s book, Between the World and Me

Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”

Glenn and John’s in-person TGS episode

Andrew Yang’s Newsweek piece, “I Ran against Eric Adams. I Saw This Coming.”

John’s NYT piece, “She Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.”

Amy Wax’s December 2021 TGS appearance

Wax’s August 2022 TGS appearance

Wax’s March 2024 TGS appearance

Richard Sander’s Stanford Law Review article, “A Systematic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools”



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Hello John McWorter, how are you doing?

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Hey, Glenn, how are you?

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Doing well, thanks.

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Lynn Lowry here, The Glen Show with John McWorder.

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We talk every other week.

0:45.9

He's my conversation partner.

0:47.8

We've been doing it for a long time.

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I teach at Brown University and I'm John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute,

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the Manhattan Institute sponsors the Glen Show.

0:59.2

And John teaches at Columbia University and writes regularly for the New York Times.

1:05.0

Here we are, John, just a few weeks before,

1:09.0

maybe the most important election of our lifetime. What do you think? Did you see that debate,

1:16.4

advance and walls? In so many excerpts and having read so much about it that yes I was actually out that night and decided that I would just

1:26.7

read about it rather than watch it but um Vance is clearly a very smart person.

1:34.4

And the walls, it's like he's winding down.

1:38.0

It's not great at that format.

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