John McWhorter – Trump's Historic Win
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:43 John reconciles himself to Trump’s win
4:06 Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!
12:16 Why Glenn feels a sense of excitement about the present moment
14:54 Ground News Ad
16:40 Is Glenn’s attitude all about contrarianism?
21:00 Does John hope that Trump’s administration fails?
26:08 ACTA ad
28:22 John’s trip to Dublin with Richard Dawkins
36:44 John’s questions for Dawkins
41:51 What Dawkins might think about race, culture, and IQ
Recorded November 18, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “What if I’m the ‘Friend’ Donald Trump Referred To?”
John’s Atlantic piece, “Trump’s Unmonitored Speech”
Max Boot’s book, Reagan: His Life and Legend
Richard Dawkins’s latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Dawkins’s book, The Selfish Gene
Dawkins’s book, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Dawkins’s book, The God Delusion
Dawkins’s book, The Ancestors’ Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
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| 0:23.5 | Hello, everybody. This is Glenn Lowry. I am with John McWhorter. You are watching the |
| 0:29.3 | Glenn Show or listening to the Glenn Show, Glenn Lowry, Brown University, and the Manhattan |
| 0:34.9 | Institute, John McWhorter Columbia University and the New York Times. |
| 0:39.2 | We talk every other week. |
| 0:41.0 | This is our week. |
| 0:42.4 | Hey, John. |
| 0:43.5 | Hi, Glenn. |
| 0:44.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:45.4 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm just wondering how you are doing. |
| 0:48.8 | Have you recovered from the election |
| 0:51.1 | in which much of your vituperation |
| 0:53.3 | against Trump was refuted by the voters? |
| 0:56.6 | I had no idea that it was going to be that landslide, and I have processed it. |
| 1:05.5 | It is very hard for me to have seen that and to feel good about my country. |
| 1:14.6 | It's hard. |
| 1:15.8 | It's really hard because all the things that I've said about him, I still believe and |
| 1:20.1 | am seeing Borne out. |
| 1:22.0 | But if that many people see him as the better choice, then it's my job to try to put myself in their heads and understand why this happened. |
| 1:33.5 | Well, I mean, that's a very significant concession, John. |
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