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The Glenn Show

John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story?

9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John

17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times

22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry

36:18 Is wokeness on the wane?

42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain

51:46 A Democrat by any other name

56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump

Recorded August 31, 2023

Links and Readings

The Philadelphia Harriet Tubman statue

John’s NYT piece, “Two Languages Walk into a Bar”

John’s NYT piece, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry”

Oliver Anthony’s song, “Rich Men North of Richmond”

Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That in a Small Town”

Donald Trump’s mugshot

Sabrina Salvati’s YouTube channel

Carol Swain’s recent TGS episode

Carol Swain’s book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress

Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules

Carol Swain’s PragerU videos



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0:43.4

Hello, John McWater.

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How are you?

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Good.

0:49.4

How are you?

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Good.

0:51.4

Well, Glendlaury.

0:52.4

The Glend Show.

0:53.4

I teach at Brown University.

0:55.2

I'm John Paulson, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

0:58.5

The Manhattan Institute sponsors the Glendlaury and I'm with John McWater, who teaches at

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Columbia University, writes for the New York Times, host Lexicon Valley, his own podcast,

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and talks with me every other week here in the conversation about this and that in our

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long-running conversation here at the Glendlaury.

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So welcome back, John.

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