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2:12

TGS LIVE: When My Lefty Wife Met Tucker Carlson

The Glenn Show ·

2025/06/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comLast week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov, live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel, the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica. We went for two hours and covered a lot of ground: LaJuan and I reported on our visit to Tucker Carlson’s “barn” in Maine, and I speculated about why

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6:59

The June Pause, One More Time

The Glenn Show ·

2025/06/02

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThe Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

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61:00

John McWhorter – A New Agenda for Higher Ed?

The Glenn Show ·

2025/05/30

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show 4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed? 11:31 Ground News ad 13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus 17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study? 28:40 John’s trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture 35:50 Will the museum survive Trump’s assault on DEI

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49:50

Yaya Fanusie – The Challenges of Crypto Security

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2025/05/23

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency” 5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps 10:15 Solving the double-spending problem 15:58 The partisan divide on crypto 21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers 26:29 How crypto protocols create value 33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX 35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with weak or unstable currency 36:32 Memecoins: Buyer beware 41:07 China’s

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47:14

John McWhorter & Jason Riley – The Affirmative Action...

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2025/05/16

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”?8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action11:41 Ground News ad13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend?17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims?35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparations argument43:26 How do figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole

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17:35

April 2025 Q&A

The Glenn Show ·

2025/05/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby, and ethics in higher education.

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50:24

Ross Levine – Trump's $150 Trillion Question

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2025/05/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Ross: Trump's economic policies are the worst I've seen in my 6:52 Trump’s bid to become the most powerful person in the history of the world 16:53 The disruptive effects of tariffs, financial regulatory manipulation, and extraordinary debt levels 22:34 Ross: Alienating our allies is only going to strengthen China 28:17 Glenn: Those who lost

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84:22

John McWhorter – Glenn and John Live at Brown University

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2025/05/02

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 00:31 Prefatory remarks 4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme 9:06 Ground News ad 11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought? 18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building 20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support? 23:05 The university’s role in public discourse 26:26 Was affirmative action a

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5:25

Bonus Episode: Will Kelly – Posting My Way to a...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/04/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss. Check out this episode on Substack to see clips from Will's TikTok and instagramFollow Will

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62:10

Daniel Bessner – Managing American Decline in the...

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2025/04/25

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comPre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409Video Links0:00 Intro 1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx 2:32 The new wokeness of the political right 8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts? 17:04 Russia’s motivations: Fear of NATO or imperial ambitions 21:41

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2:58

Alex Shieh – Bloat at Brown University

The Glenn Show ·

2025/04/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on

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77:31

John McWhorter, Cornel West & Robert George – Truth,...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/04/18

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comPre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, Self-Censorship. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai...Video Links0:00 Intro 1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without 9:50 Ground News ad 11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument 20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism 22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions 32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to

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64:05

Larry Kotlikoff – Can the US Survive Tariff Turmoil?

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2025/04/11

Support The Glenn Show at http://glennloury.substack.comVIdeo Links0:00 Intro 0:45 Why Trump’s tariffs alarm economists 8:18 Are the tariffs designed to offset Trump’s tax cuts? 11:30 Larry’s break with Senator Ron Johnson 14:16 Larry: We’re not in a trade war with other countries, we’re in a trade war with other people 22:44 Is Trump under the sway of a foreign power? 28:45 What measures should investors take to protect themselves from tariff-generated market volatility? 35:46 The possible silver

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12:06

March 2025 Q&A

The Glenn Show ·

2025/04/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comFor the March 2025 Q&A, John and I take questions on getting outside our bubbles, the first hundred days of the second Trump administration, the Department of Education, contemporary black writers, race and advertising, the assumption of good faith, and undocumented immigration.The Glenn Show is supported almost entirely by listeners, viewers, and readers. If you're not year a full subscriber, please consider

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57:48

John McWhorter & Richard Kahlenberg – Rethinking...

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2025/04/04

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 1:03 How Rick feels being a “liberal maverick,” according to the NYT 4:18 Rick’s advocacy for class-based affirmative action 6:39 Rick: “The Trump administration has gone too far” by trying to eliminate racial diversity 13:02 Opening up the elite university’s old boys club 21:21 Will economic diversity in admissions come with test score disparities? 23:55 Ground News ad 25:56 What’s Edward Blum’s deal? 29:36 Rick: The

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65:16

Rajiv Sethi – The Trump-Led Upheaval at Columbia

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2025/03/28

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:36 How Rajiv saw Trump’s assault on elite higher ed coming 4:26 The Trump administration’s legitimate complaints against higher ed 9:41 Rajiv: The crackdown on campus protest would have happened even without the October 7 protest 17:10 How test scores can marry merit and diversity on college campuses 21:06 Glenn: Doesn’t SFFA v. Harvard justify JD Vance’s criticisms of higher ed? 25:30 Columbia’s capitulation to the Trump

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58:38

The Glenn Loury News Hour

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2025/03/17

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comI spent part of last week visiting Stanford University, and John is off taking care of business in Australia. The time difference, travel, and speaking obligations made scheduling a recording impossible. So this week, I’ve got something a little different for you. Instead of recording a conversation on the day’s news with John, I decided to record one on my own. In this episode, I talk through some opinion pieces that grabbed my attention and

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54:04

Peter Beinart – Being Jewish after the Destruction of...

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2025/03/14

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 1:33 The relationships Peter has lost and gained 4:14 Why Peter thinks this is a “watershed” moment in Jewish history 6:50 Who can criticize Israel? 9:44 The challenge of October 7’s aftermath to Jewish self-understanding 15:54 Peter: Jews should support non-violent Palestinian protest, not criminalize it 20:12 Shouldn’t the Palestinians have taken the deals they were offered? 25:48 Peter’s argument for a one-state

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2:01

Bonus Episode: Man of Steel

The Glenn Show ·

2025/03/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this episode, Nikita, Mark, and I talk about steelmanning, what people want me to say about Gaza, what I want to say about Gaza, and why I offer disclaimers when I talk foreign policy.

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45:35

John McWhorter – War Comes to the Oval Office

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2025/03/07

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro 1:55 Did Trump and Vance bully Zelenskyy or give him a dose of reality? 5:16 Glenn: Trump is trying to wind down an unnecessary war 13:49 - Ground News ad 28:58 The “deep game” of European security 32:06 Glenn: America First appeals to me, World War III doesn’t 36:40 Teaching the reparations debate in a post-October 7 world 43:06 MSNBC axes Joy Reid’s showRecorded March 1, 2025Links and ReadingsTrump and Zelensky’s Oval

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