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The Glenn Show

Joshua Cohen – Donald Trump's Conviction

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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ORDER 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 How Josh got Glenn started in podcasting

3:05 Early career advice to Glenn: Don’t be an a*****e

6:30 A recent loss in Josh’s life

8:36 Did Trump’s prosecution and conviction set a dangerous precedent?

15:37 Biden’s uninspiring presidential campaign

19:38 Josh: Trump is “an enemy of and a threat to … fundamental political values”

23:22 The problem of the meritocracy

28:54 The “shame” Glenn felt after his speech at a synagogue

39:19 The things left unsaid about the Gaza War

47:22 Were Glenn’s fears about reaction to his thoughts about Gaza overblown?

51:23 Can mistaken ad hominem inferences about audiences initiate self-censorship on the part of speakers?

55:55 When Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salaam when to Berkeley

1:00:58 Josh: Campus protests have basically been a good thing

1:09:33 Josh’s thoughts on what John Rawls might have said about the State of Israel

Recorded June 1, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s writing for Boston Review

Glenn and Josh’s first Bloggingheads conversation

Michael Lind’s UnHerd piece, “Trump’s Conviction Is an Assault on Democracy”

Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit

Michael Sandel’s Boston Review piece, “How Markets Crowd Out Morals”

Michael Sandel discusses The Tyranny of Merit on TGS

Glenn’s Substack post, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Glenn’s 1994 essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Glenn’s Palm Beach Synagogue speech, “What Has Become of the Partnership between Black and Jews”

John Mearsheimer on TGS

Omer Bartov on TGS

Reihan Salam’s book, Melting Pot or Civil War?

The Kalven Committee Report

John Rawls’s book, A Theory of Justice

John Rawls’s book, The Law of Peoples

Josh’s essay, “Is There a Human Right to Democracy?”



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0:46.0

Hey there, Josh Cohen, how are you?

0:48.0

I'm well, glad I'm sitting here at a cabin in the woods in Maine.

0:52.0

That's why you, that's why there's all that wood in the background.

0:57.2

Oh, here in the late spring, that's a good place to be.

1:00.9

Everybody, so you know, this is, Yeah yeah I'm sorry Josh no just I'm here I was just going to introduce us go ahead

1:09.8

Glenn Lowry here you've tuned into the Glenn show.

1:12.4

Glen show sponsored by the Manhattan Institute Glenn Lowry here, you've tuned into the Glenn Show,

1:13.1

Glen Show sponsored by the Manhattan Institute

1:15.4

for Policy Research in New York City.

1:17.4

I'm a professor at Brown University,

1:19.8

and I'm joined this week by Josh Cohen,

1:22.1

a political philosopher who is a professor at

1:25.5

Apple University and an adjunct faculty at the UC Berkeley Law School if I

1:30.6

remember correctly. Yeah.

1:34.0

He's also publisher, co-pubisher with the

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