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0:00 Intro
1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain
2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”
9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse
12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”
19:17 Ground News ad
21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right
26:24 The hard truths of global competition
30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?
36:09 ACTA ad
38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status
44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline
46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?
Recorded January 5, 2025
Links and Readings
Charles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Matt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal style
Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship
Richard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
Trailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy
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It may be cold outside, but the first Q&A of 2025 is a hot one. John and Glenn talk negotiating the modern mediasphere, the German language, education after affirmative action, code switching, social media and AI, and maintaining a friendship in spite of political differences.
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In retiring from academia, I'm giving up what was once a vital source of intellectual inspiration. How should I go about replacing it? I'm talking through the problem with Nikita and Mark.
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In this bonus episode, I sit down with my son, Glenn Cartman Loury II, to talk about the big topics: life, death, and change. This is a heavy, real conversation. We “reminisce” about caring for Linda—my wife and Glenn’s mother—during the final stages of terminal cancer. We talk about who we were then, who we are now, and why we work so hard to change our lives. I’m seeking solace from my son, and true solace can only come from confronting reality, rather than turning away from it and taking refuge in comforting illusions.
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0:00 Intro
3:01 January 15, “Why Glenn wrote a memoir”
9:18 February 2, “The three dimensions of black conservatism”
15:50 Ground News ad
17:52 February 16, “Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?”
23:07 March 22, “What do we mean by 'colorblindness' today?”
34:39 April 5, “John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first”
37:40 May 17, “Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?”
41:53 ACTA ad
44:07 June 14, “Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center”
49:22 June 28, “Can John account for his 'emotional and irrational conclusions' about Trump and his recent conviction?”
59:35 August 16, “Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama”
1:05:08 August 28, “Vladimir X asks Glenn and John about Gaza”
1:18:19 October 11, “Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates's book is brilliant”
1:26:32 October 25, “John: Coates is a beautiful writer, BUT …”
1:28:54 November 4, “A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)”
1:35:47 November 22, “Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!”
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0:00 The uncertain future of AI
4:46 What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China?
8:15 The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence
12:01 The international policy challenges of AI
14:32 Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine?
18:46 Are there any good argument for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?
23:55 Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy
28:29 The continuing assault on Gaza
32:33 Antiwar speech codes
37:57 Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing
43:15 Missed opportunities to turn the temperature down in Israel
51:29 Bob: The international community has little sway over Israel
54:25 The advantages of cognitive empathy
Recorded December 17, 2024
Links and Readings
Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter
Nonzero on YouTube
Thomas Nagel’s essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
Bob’s most recent conversation with Thomas Friedman
Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”
Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
Ilan Papé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message
Bob’s Nonzero essay, “The Truth about Hamas”
Bob’s 2002 Slate essay, “Was Arafat the Problem?”
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LaJuan has appeared in a handful of episodes, but I don’t feel like you really know her yet. I wanted to use this episode to introduce you to my lovely wife. We talk about how her difficult early life shaped her political views, how she developed her love of reading and ideas, her alienation from Democrats and the liberal center, and her personal connection to Beyoncé.
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1:33 Demonization on the right and the left
6:23 Is Trump’s election the nail in the coffin for DEI?
13:50 John: It’s no use pretending that racism in America is as bad as it was 50 years ago
16:33 Ground News ad
18:36 Has Elon Musk “encouraged” or “permitted” more racism on X?
19:30 John: It’s a tragedy that Jordan Neely died, but he needed to be restrained
30:12 If Daniel Penny had been a cop
34:05 ACTA ad
36:18 The glorification of Luigi Mangione
47:06 Cheering for the villain
55:43 Will New York remain a sanctuary city?
Recorded December 13, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT column, “How to Dangerously Misread a Very Important Verdict”
Briahna Joy Gray and Nathan Robinson on Luigi Mangione
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Right after I taped this week’s episode with John McWhorter, I got on a call with my creative director Nikita Petrov, expecting some follow ups.
We talked about Syria, the world’s reaction to Trump’s victory, P. Diddy’s parties, the reasons the labor movement never got the same kind of momentum in the US as it did in Western Europe, and more. But we started by connecting two topics from my conversation with John: the surprisingly cheerful reactions to a killing of an insurance firm CEO in New York, and the seeming demise of DEI as a movement.
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Mike Spooner wants to know how I came around to supporting Trump
Substack Reader wants to know if Trump’s reelection signals that we’re entering an era where “reason and common sense once again prevail.”
Michoel Stern senses that I’m becoming more isolationist, and that I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman. So what is the alternative?
Robert Odear asks if there is “an accepted metric for linguistic complexity,” and if there is one, whether linguistically complex societies also tend to be advanced societies.
Nancy wants to know if the triumph over “wokeness” represented by Trump’s election is being felt on campus.
Jonathan E. Burack wants to know why I haven’t responded to this review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.
Pete Bradshaw asks what we think of the use of political slurs like “fascist,” “Hitler,” and “commie.”
Cara C. suggests that, while it was wrong for Democrats to use lawfare against Trump, it is acceptable for Republicans to use it against Democrats, if only to teach them a lesson.
Recorded December 1, 2024
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0:00 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John
0:45 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John
6:50 Glenn the patriarch
10:35 John Lewis’s legacy
15:48 Ground News ad
17:49 From John Lewis to Stokely Carmichael to Jesse Jackson to BLM
25:21 To isolate or to integrate?
27:41 What black activism could have been
32:02 John: The Black Panthers accomplished nothing
40:04 ACTA ad
42:18 James Baldwin’s “nutty” late work
44:45 James Q. Wilson’s prescient attitude toward Glenn’s leftward shift
52:43 The “conservative” absence at the National Museum of African American History
55:11 John’s investigation of contemporary Yiddish speakers
Recorded December 1, 2024
Links and Readings
David Greenberg’s book, John Lewis: A Life
Barbara Fields and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton’s book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Trailer for Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin’s book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values
John DiIulio Jr.’s review of Late Admissions in the Claremont Review of Books
John’s NYT column, “Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That’s Thrillingly Alive”
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In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about the holiday blues, the contradictions of racial heterodoxy and racial self-identification, and learning from Yiddish-speakers.
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0:47 The Jabbari Lincoln Files, Yaya’s audio spy thriller
5:40 Is Jabbari Lincoln a fictional surrogate for Yaya?
10:05 How Yaya joined the CIA
16:18 What does a CIA analyst do, anyway?
20:42 The lessons of the WMDs debacle
23:08 A Muslim convert at the Agency
28:40 How the 2005 London Underground bombings got Yaya interested in counterterrorism
30:28 Terrorist recruitment and the search for self
35:57 Why Yaya doesn’t use the term “Islamophobia”
38:52 Yaya: Not even freedom fighters have license to kill with impunity
45:06 What would Malcolm X think about African American support of Palestinians?
52:22 Working for the CIA in the post-COINTELPRO era
Recorded November 9, 2024
Links and Readings
1776 Unites
The Jabarri Lincoln Files
Sam Greenlee’s novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film adaptation of The Spook Who Say by the Door
Yaya’s essay for the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Hamas Are Not Muslim Freedom Fighters”
December 2, 1963 NYT article on Malcolm X’s “Chickens coming home to roost” comment
Yaya’s other podcast, Designated
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In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about my conversation with Yaya Fanusie, the sub rosa activities of the CIA, the US's authorization of ATACMS strikes in Russian territory, and more.
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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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In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about my conversation with John McWhorter, my elation over Trump's victory, and why I wasn't forthcoming about my preference for him over Harris.
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1:21 Have Glenn’s intellectual shifts been misread?
5:45 Danny: Francis Fukuyama was right
10:30 Capitalism won. Is that a good thing?
14:18 The climate under capitalism
20:24 Danny: “People said 'f**k you' to the Democratic Party”
23:51 Why the “Trump is a fascist” argument makes no sense
27:53 Whither the working class coalition?
33:10 How the US foreign policy establishment won the argument and lost Ukraine
36:28 Danny: There is no way the US can maintain influence in East Asia
38:26 Does Jewish survival require a Jewish state?
43:50 The limits of social science
49:36 The media’s obsession with polling
53:55 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?52:34 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?
Recorded November 9, 2024
Links and Readings
Dann’s podcast, American Prestige
Danny’s conversations with Glenn about his intellectual history, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4
Francis Fukuyama’s Financial Times piece, “What Trump Unleashed Means for America”
Danny’s Nation essay, “The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama”
Adam Tooze’s podcast, Ones & Tooze
Danny’s Harper’s essay, “The Life and Death of Hollywood”
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s manifesto, The Communist Manifesto
Danny’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”
Danny’s Boston Review piece, “Mass Destruction”
Glenn’s recent conversation with Rajiv Sethi
JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civilization: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
Yuri Slezkine’s book, The Jewish Century
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In this post-show conversation with my creative director Nikita Petrov, I review this week's episode with historian Daniel Bessner. We also talk about Trump's policy proposals, capitalism, Russia and Ukraine, NATO, and why I sometimes pull back from speaking my mind.
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In this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, we talk about Donald Trump's "Nazi rally" at Madison Square Garden, Martha Raddatz's comments about Venezuelan gangs in Colorado, Glenn's retirement, John's comments about Trump and Vance, my comments about Israel and Palestine, and, of course, Trump's victory.
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This is the Post-Show episode following this week's conversation with John McWhorter. In it, Glenn sits down with his editor Mark Sussman and his creative director Nikita Petrov to talk about the election, why he understands where Trump's supporters are coming from, the meaning of voting, and the possibility that Trump might release sealed documents relating to the JFK assassination.
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