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TGS Live: Warren Smith and Robert Patton-Spruill on...

The Glenn Show ·

2026/10/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn talks with filmmaker and YouTuber Warren Smith, author of A Mind of Your Own: Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation, a guide for young people navigating claims on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Executive producer Robert Patton-Spruill, Smith's former teacher, helps guide the discussion, which covers the viral moment that launched Smith's

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5:54

Robert Woodson Sr., 1937-2026

The Glenn Show ·

2026/10/04

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a tribute to the life and work of Robert Woodson, who passed away on May 19, 2026. I was not able to attend, but I contributed a short remembrance of Bob, which was read beautifully by Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Devon Westhill. I include video of Devon’s reading at the associated post over at Substack. You can watch video of the entire event

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63:52

TGS Live: Sean Stevens and John McWhorter on Campus...

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2026/10/02

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn and John host Sean Stevens of FIRE to discuss the organization's College Free Speech Rankings and the methodology behind measuring campus speech climates, alongside concerns about administrations overreaching under the guise of safety—particularly around Israel-Palestine speech. The show then moves to audience Q&A, covering the earlier Nathan Cofnas conversation, race and IQ discourse, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and AI's impact on labor and

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2:29

TGS Live: Sean Stevens and John McWhorter on Campus...

The Glenn Show ·

2026/09/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn and John host Sean Stevens of FIRE to discuss the organization's College Free Speech Rankings and the methodology behind measuring campus speech climates, alongside concerns about administrations overreaching under the guise of safety—particularly around Israel-Palestine speech. The show then moves to audience Q&A, covering the earlier Nathan Cofnas

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60:22

TGS Live: Roland Fryer on Breaking Through...

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2026/09/25

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn welcomes economist Roland Fryer—his former student and a John Bates Clark Medal and MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient—for a wide-ranging conversation. Fryer discusses the Carob Trust Prize, a new $1 million award he co-founded with Bill Ackman (on whose selection committee Glenn sits) to reward independent, courageous social science research. The two also revisit Fryer's path into economics, Glenn's early mentorship of him, the

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1:35

TGS Live: Roland Fryer on Breaking Through...

The Glenn Show ·

2026/09/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn welcomes economist Roland Fryer—his former student and a John Bates Clark Medal and MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient—for a wide-ranging conversation. Fryer discusses the Carob Trust Prize, a new $1 million award he co-founded with Bill Ackman (on whose selection committee Glenn sits) to reward independent, courageous social science research. The two

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42:14

TGS Live: John McWhorter and Nathan Cofnas on Race...

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2026/09/18

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comJohn McWhorter and Glenn talk with Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher of biology who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism, for a discussion of that affair and Cofnas's own "race realist" views—that racial IQ differences are real and largely innate. McWhorter voices skepticism, questioning whether Cofnas has reckoned with the implications of his position. Glenn argues society lacks evidence to treat these differences as fixed, while maintaining the topic

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1:48

TGS Live: John McWhorter and Nathan Cofnas on Race...

The Glenn Show ·

2026/09/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn and John McWhorter reflect on 9/11 twenty-five years on, weighing the pride felt in its aftermath against more ambivalent views of America's subsequent military response. The episode then turns to Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher of biology who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism, for a discussion of that affair and Cofnas's own "race realist" views—that racial

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61:08

TGS Live: Ian Rowe, Bradford Wilcox & Delano Squires...

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2026/09/11

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comOn this episode of The Glenn Show, Ian Rowe, Bradford Wilcox, and Delano Squires argue that children generally fare best when raised by two married parents in the same household, and that this discussion is too often avoided. Ian and Brad point to a recent American Enterprise Institute report arguing that the National Assessment of Educational Progress should publish the family-structure data it already collects. Ian, Brad, and Delano contend

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59:28

Robert Patton-Spruill – A Wrongheaded Doc about...

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2026/09/09

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, Glenn and TGS co-producer Robert Patton-Spruill talk about Sabrina Salvati's documentary Removed: Black Erasure in Boston, and how his own attempt to build affordable housing in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. According to Rob, redlining isn't the cause of present-day housing problems for black Bostonians. It's often the community itself that stands in the way. The Glenn Show is almost entirely

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61:38

John McWhorter & Tess Chakkalakal – Was the First...

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2026/09/04

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comEarlier this summer, I had Tess Chakkalakal, professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College and author of A Matter of Complexion, a wonderful biography of the writer Charles Chesnutt, on the livestream. That stream was for full subscribers here on the Substack, but today I’m releasing this fascinating conversation for all to enjoy.If you don’t know who Chesnutt is, you’re not alone. Chesnutt was a pathbreaking African American

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1:15

Jason Arday and Elite Academia’s Rarefied Air

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2026/08/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comDue to travel, I wasn’t able to offer my thoughts on the Jason Arday affair as its sad final chapter unfolded. In lieu of a full-length conversation—which I hope to have soon—I want to offer these brief comments on Arday, meritocracy, and the academy.

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1:40

The John Show Live: Jason Arday, Jewish-Adjacency,...

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2026/08/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glen Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast Friday, with Glenn still on the other side of the world, John McWhorter slid into the host chair for the weekly livestream. The major topic under discussion was the career and death of Jason Arday. As most of you probably know, we cut a segment on Arday from last week’s episode, because it was recorded the day before news of Arday’s death broke. Though

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28:38

John McWhorter and Tyler Austin Harper – Why Tyler...

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2026/08/21

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn and John McWhorter sit down with Tyler Austin Harper, whose Atlantic cover story documents his decision to resign from a tenure-track position at Bates College. Harper offers an insider's account of an institution compromising scholarly standards and treating him as a token in the service of sweeping racial justice policies — a story of administrative pressure, faculty self-censorship, and mission drift. Note: this episode was originally

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1:04

TGS Live: Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Israel...

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2026/08/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comBuy Norman Finkelstein's new book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High PlacesNearly three years after October 7th, Glenn and John McWhorter host two guests with sharply opposing views on Israel and Gaza — in succession rather than debate, to prioritize clarity over conflict. First, Norman Finkelstein discusses his forthcoming book Gaza's

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2:01

TGS Live: Delano Squires on Rebuilding the Black Family

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2026/08/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn welcomes back Delano Squires, director of the Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable. Squires argues that failures of black political and religious leadership, combined with a welfare system that has done more

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1:03

TGS Live: John Mcwhorter, Tess Chakkalakal on Charles...

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2026/07/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn and John McWhorter open with John's recent New York Times column on Stuyvesant High School's vanishingly small number of black admits. Both reject calls to eliminate the admissions test as racist, arguing the problem is inadequate preparation — and that the real damage is done by those telling black students that academic excellence isn't for them. A

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3:11

TGS Live Bonus Episode: Steven Teles on Ideological...

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2026/07/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn sits down with political scientist Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins to discuss one of higher education's most stubborn problems: ideological homogeneity. University faculties lean dramatically further left than the broader population, and in some humanities and social science disciplines, the imbalance has become self-reinforcing — conservatives self-censor

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2:39

TGS Live: Andrew Day on Trump, Israel, and Iran

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2026/07/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comGlenn brings back Andrew Day, senior editor at The American Conservative, to make sense of the war-skeptical right's position on the Iran War. With seventeen Americans already killed and peace talks stalled, Day argues Trump's decision to go to war is flatly incompatible with America First principles — delivering no clear national benefit while disrupting

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59:04

TGS Live: Karmelo Anthony and the Content of Our...

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2026/07/17

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comJohn McWhorter returns as Glenn and John reflect on the nation's 250th birthday and the state of Black America. Both express disappointment — not at racism's persistence, but at cultural attitudes that continue to hold Black Americans back. Using the Karmelo Anthony case as a touchstone, they push back hard against victimhood narratives that treat race as a mitigating factor for individual wrongdoing. But Glenn and John diverge on

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