John McWhorter – Who You Calling a Sellout?
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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1:28 John corrects some Wikipedia-driven misconceptions about his work
4:12 ChatGPT pays homage to Glenn and John
6:41 John: JD Vance actually is what I’m merely accused of being
17:59 Ground News ad 20:08 Are there any true sellouts among black conservatives?
28:32 And what is a sellout, anyway?
36:01 What goes on between Clarence and Ginni Thomas?
40:19 An addition to the book club reading list
42:08 ACTA ad
43:54 Remembering Linda Datcher Loury
49:00 Should having children be the norm?
56:34 Glenn sightings in the wild
57:32 Working without a net
Recorded September 23, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT column, “Why JD Vance Dropped into My Inbox”
JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Randall Kennedy’s book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A Life
David Lodge’s novel, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
Barbara and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Percival Everett’s novel, James
RF Kuang’s novel, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
Clint Smith’s Atlantic piece, “George Floyd Was Also a Father”
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| 0:50.1 | I am with John Mcwater. I'm a professor at Brown University and John Paulson's senior |
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| 1:12.6 | Welcome, John. |
| 1:14.9 | Good to be here, Glenn. |
| 1:15.8 | How are you? |
| 1:19.2 | I'm all right. |
| 1:20.2 | I guess I'm still struggling with my recovery and rehabilitation for my surgery so every now and then my back kicks up. I didn't sleep so well last night. But I did get to the gym this morning with my trainer |
| 1:36.6 | and got my exercises and stretching and stuff in and that has helped. So I'm, you know, for an old guy, I'm not doing too bad. It's good to hear. |
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| 1:54.1 | I was born in 1948. |
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