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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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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
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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0:33.0 | Hello John McWorter, how are you doing? |
0:37.0 | Hey, Glenn, how are you? |
0:39.0 | Doing well, thanks. |
0:40.0 | Lynn Lowry here, The Glen Show with John McWorder. |
0:44.8 | 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. |
0:50.6 | I teach at Brown University and I'm John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, |
0:56.1 | 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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