John McWhorter – The Best of Glenn & John 2024
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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0:00 Intro
3:01 January 15, “Why Glenn wrote a memoir”
9:18 February 2, “The three dimensions of black conservatism”
15:50 Ground News ad
17:52 February 16, “Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?”
23:07 March 22, “What do we mean by 'colorblindness' today?”
34:39 April 5, “John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first”
37:40 May 17, “Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?”
41:53 ACTA ad
44:07 June 14, “Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center”
49:22 June 28, “Can John account for his 'emotional and irrational conclusions' about Trump and his recent conviction?”
59:35 August 16, “Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama”
1:05:08 August 28, “Vladimir X asks Glenn and John about Gaza”
1:18:19 October 11, “Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates's book is brilliant”
1:26:32 October 25, “John: Coates is a beautiful writer, BUT …”
1:28:54 November 4, “A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)”
1:35:47 November 22, “Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!”
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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. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.5 | Can I ask you something, Glenn? |
| 0:26.5 | Yes, you certainly can. |
| 0:28.2 | I was hoping that you would. |
| 0:31.4 | Why did you write a memoir? |
| 0:37.3 | Why do you wish |
| 0:39.4 | to share your view of your life story |
| 0:42.9 | beyond your friends and family? |
| 0:47.5 | And of course, many people do, but |
| 0:49.0 | it mystifies me because I'm strange. |
| 0:52.6 | I will write no such book, I'm pretty sure. |
| 0:56.5 | What's the purpose? That's a genuine question. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, it's not a question that can be adequately answered off the cuff. |
| 1:07.7 | I will react to your question. I'm not sure I will answer it. |
| 1:12.8 | I mean, first thing I want to say is this has been brewing for a long time for me. |
| 1:19.3 | I mean, almost as long as you and I have been talking, |
| 1:21.7 | and we've been talking since 2008. |
| 1:24.4 | So that's 15 years. |
| 1:26.7 | But as a concrete project, it winked in and out of my, you know, |
| 1:33.2 | kind of not as entirely well-organized work plan. You know, what am I doing with my time? |
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