John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – Compulsory Racial Performance
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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PREORDER 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 A message from Glenn
3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world
12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books
13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance”
18:40 The “mission creep” of identity politics
24:23 Tyler Austin Harper University’s admissions policy
28:44 Does diversity contribute to quality of education?
35:18 The trouble with being “the black person” in class
37:38 Diversity at Bates College, where Tyler teaches
41:38 Night fishing with Tyler, insect collecting with John
45:46 Tyler’s prolific social media presence
48:38 Tyler’s five-year plan
52:51 The turn away from obscurantism in the humanities
Recorded April 28, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn and John’s first conversation with Tyler
Glenn and John talk with Tyler and Daniel Bessner
Mary Shelley’s novel, The Last Man
Christopher Lasch’s book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
Richard Hanania’s book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Glenn’s conversation with Peter Arcidiacono
Tyler’s X (formerly Twitter) account
Tyler’s Atlantic piece, “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad”
Jacques Derrida’s essay, “No Apocalypse, Not Now”
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