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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn my latest livestream, TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill and I talk about rising tensions with Venezuela, New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his proposed policies, Jeffrey Epstein wreaking havoc from beyond the grave, Nick Fuentes’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show and ideological rifts on the right, my conception of Black Patriotism, and the uses and pleasures of AI.This recording of the stream is available to full subscribers. We’ll make a long-ish clip available for free subscribers on Friday. But if you want the whole thing, consider becoming a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content.
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Charles’s new book, Taking Religious Seriously 8:31 Why Charles finds the idea of divine creation plausible13:54 Charles’s “road to Damascus” moment19:25 The appeal of Christianity24:51 The evidence for life after death31:38 Charles: “The relative positions of science and religion have flipped”36:42 The trouble with scientism 40:17 Glenn’s steps toward and away from religion51:04 Was The Bell Curve putting making a deterministic argument?Recorded November 4, 2025Links and ReadingsCharles’s new book, Taking Religious SeriouslyCharles’s book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980Richard Herrnstein and Charles’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeCharles’s book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and ClassCharles’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010Martin Rees’s book, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the UniverseJames Q. Wilson’s book, The Moral SenseC.S. Lewis’s book, Mere ChristianityRaymond Moody’s book, Life after Life: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and the Transformative Insights into the Afterlife, Backed by Scientific Study and Personal TestimoniesSteven Pinker’s book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThe first half of the show consists of a pre-recorded interview with political scientist Charles Murray. He’s best known for books like Losing Ground and The Bell Curve—controversial though they may have been, they were grounded in the empirical methods that characterize modern social science. His new book, Taking Religion Seriously, is a somewhat surprising departure from social science into the realm of religion and religious experience. Murray has had, if not a conversion experience, then a kind of awakening regarding the claims of religion: the existence of a divine creator, miracles, and life after death. In this conversation, I ask him how a staunch materialist who, by his own account, doesn’t have a natural capacity for religious feeling has come to value metaphysics. After that I bring on Robert Patton-Spruill to talk a little more about religion, the death of Dick Cheney, Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC mayoral race, the government shutdown, and Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the conservative schism over U.S.-Israel policy.The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content.
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comWatch and listen to the full, 2-hour episode: https://glennloury.substack.com/p/tgs-live-democrats-leadership-crisisVideo Links0:00 John’s misgivings about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Zionism7:22 Is anti-Zionism reducible to “good black people vs. bad white people”?11:53 Ground News ad13:40 Democrats try to pull out of a death spiral20:05 John: If Trump can end some wars, I’ll take it22:49 What do Kamala Harris fans see in her?30:09 Here’s what Obama should be doing in his post-presidency40:11 Mourning the end of race50:15 Glenn: Eliminating racial disparities requires developing communitiesRecorded October 31, 2025Links and ReadingsTressie McMillan Cottom’s NYT column, “A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness”Michelle Goldberg’s NYT column, “I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.”Kamala Harris’s book, 107 DaysDavid Brooks’s NYT column, “Hey Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.” 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast Friday, John McWhorter and I took our ongoing conversation into new territory: we streamed it live. Eighteen years into our partnership, and we’re still finding ways to keep it fresh! In the first half of the show, we talk about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s position on Israel, which John believes is merely woke moralism. While I’m no fan of Mamdani’s plans for free grocery stores and rent freezes, I press John on whether Mamdani’s views on Israel are as simplistic as he makes them out to be. Perhaps Mamdani’s shocking success in New York is a sign that Democratic voters are sick of the party’s lack of direction and looking for an infusion of new blood. John and I agree that substance-free leaders like Kamala Harris aren’t going to cut it. Trump is running the table at home and abroad, and Democratic leadership seems overwhelmed or, in the case of Barack Obama, strangely passive.Obama was at one time a community organizer, wasn’t he? What happened to that commitment to local communities? I recently witnessed the power of effective grassroots organizing—I tell John about my trip to San Antonio in honor of my friend Ernesto Cortés’s 50th anniversary at Communities Organized for Public Service, an extremely impressive organizing operation. Black communities need leadership like that, and it is in short supply.In the Q&A segment, we answer questions submitted by full subscribers and talk to a couple of them on camera. We take questions on black conservatism in American institutions, AI, race reductionism, test scores in college admissions, the Civil Rights Act, and the government shutdown.The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content.Click here to subscribe!
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast week’s conference in honor of Thomas Sowell was the culmination of a long year of anticipation, planning, reading, and thinking. In this long excerpt from my most recent livestream, I talk with my editor Mark Sussman about the conference events and my own contributions. I explain the importance of Friedrich Von Hayek to Sowell’s thought and work, and how Sowell extended Hayek’s work. The actor-writer Clifton Duncan drops in to talk about his experiences at the conference. And I recount a conversation that I sat in on between the former secretary of state and the Supreme Court justice that would leave their critics speechless. Legacies are about the resources—intellectual, material, and spiritual—the past leaves to the future. If what I saw over those two days is any indication, those of us who inherit Sowell’s legacy will be very rich indeed.Today’s episode is just one segment from last week’s livestream. If you missed it and want to watch the full recording, click below to become a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get full recordings of our livestreams, weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content. 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
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 edition of TGS Live, I talk about the events of the conference, my contribution, and one of the ideas informing my new book project. The conference honored the past accomplishments of Thomas Sowell, but it also pointed to the future. I heard the effects of Sowell’s writing and thinking coursing through vital new work, I met the two young winners of an essay contest about Sowell’s ideas, and I sat in on a conversation between Rice and Thomas that would stun their progressive critics.And speaking of the future, the actor-writer Clifton Duncan, who is working on a one-man show about Sowell’s life and work, came to the conference as well. He dropped into the stream to talk about what he saw and to let us know how his work in progress is shaping up.From there, it's on to politics. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to American cities may anger his detractors, but crime disproportionately affects black Americans, and some of them are saying they like what they’re seeing from Trump’s actions. Given the broad perception that illegal immigration is bad for black workers, it makes perfect sense that some of them are throwing their support behind Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.We look over some pro-Trump clips from black content creators, and I note that market demand will incentivize the creation of supply. As long as Black MAGA remains a source of fascination for supporters, detractors, and the agnostic, creators will supply the market in search of clicks. It’s hard to say whether those creators are truly as dedicated to the cause as they seem, but they’re going to be here as long as people keep watching.The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, click here to become one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content.
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comTucker Carlson has been suggesting that a new civil war may be coming to the US. Is he trying to warn us? Or is he purposefully stoking the fire? Glenn takes Tucker to task.Today’s episode is just one segment from last week’s livestream. If you missed it and want to watch the full recording, click below to become a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get full recordings of our livestreams, weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content. 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comNote: Due to the AWS outage, many online services experienced disruptions throughout Monday. To ensure that everyone receives the episode, I thought it best to hold the episode until Amazon fixed the problem. Apologies for the delay.In this edition of the livestream, we're talking about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, creative destruction, nuclear war, Trump's multi-billion-dollar currency swap with Argentina, military strikes on "narcoterrorist" boats, sending the CIA into Venezuela, a combination War on Terror and War on Drugs, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, "This Week in White Crime," and Tucker Carlson's warning about (or attempt to incite) a new civil war waged over immigration and white Christian nationalism.Recording of the full stream is available to full subscribers right now. An abbreviated episode will be available for free subscribers on Friday. The Glenn Show is almost entirely subscriber-supported. To those of you who are already full subscribers: thank you! If you like what you hear and want more, go to my Substack and become a full subscriber today.
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Happy 60th, John! 2:20 2020 in hindsight 12:05 Ground News ad 14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window? 18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right? 29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk 34:14 Glenn’s new book idea 41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Joy Reid 48:05 The purging of the woke remnant 51:33 The responsibilities of the black intellectual 58:27 Glenn: There is meaning in blacknessRecorded October 6, 2025Links and ReadingsGlenn and John’s first discussion of George Floyd, from May 2020Pete Hegseth’s speech before US military leadershipThe Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Atlantic essay, “The Other Martyr”Glenn’s October 3rd livestream, with Nikita Petrov and Robert Patton-SpruillEzra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s NYT conversation following the assassination of Charlie KirkCoates’s 2015 Atlantic essay, “Letter to My Son”Glenn’s recent conversation with Jason Riley on the life and work of Thomas Sowell 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
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThis week on The Glenn Show, Robert Patton-Spruill and I get into a detailed analysis of a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein. The show begins as a debate on their divergent reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, expressed in a New York Times column by Klein and a Vanity Fair piece by Coates. I find Coates’s smug, morally hectoring characterization of Kirk as a hate monger hard to stomach. As much as I admire parts of The Message, his vision of African American history as a struggle against an apparently timeless and all-encompassing white supremacy cannot go unchallenged, and Klein was simply not up to the task. But I am.This is a long segment from my Friday, October 3rd livestream, and there’s lots more in the full episode. To watch that, you’ll need to become a full subscriber. I’m doing another stream next Friday, October 17—we’ll post an announcement with links next week. And John McWhorter will return on Monday for a regular episode for full subscribers (free subscribers will have to wait until next Friday). John and I really get into it on some of the same topics: Charlie Kirk, the Coates-Klein debate, and what being a “black writer” means in the twenty-first century. It’s one of the best episodes of the year, if I do say so myself. You won’t want to miss it.And you’ll want it as soon as possible! To get early access to episodes, video from my livestreams, and much more, become a full subscriber by clicking below. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a mere $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content. 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comLast Friday’s livestream was a hot one. Today I’m posting the video for all who missed it (you have to be a paid subscriber to hear the full version now, but everybody else will get it on Friday). But trust me, this is appointment viewing. I’ll be at Stanford later this week for a conference on the work of Thomas Sowell. But the livestream will return the week following.In the first half of the stream, Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and I talk about …
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comNote: Links and info for my next livestream, which is happening this Friday, October 3 at 1:00 PM EDT, can be found at the end of this post.
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comNormally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast, so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full subscriber, consider becoming one by going here. We at The Glenn Show are almost entirely subscriber supported. We need your help to keep the show going. So if you’re already a paying subscriber, thank you for making The Glenn Show possible. Video Links0:00 A message from Glenn1:34 How this conversation came to be2:59 What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing8:56 Who (or what) is driving our polarization?17:36 Cognitive empathy for MAGA25:24 Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action45:04 Are we re-running the 1960s?51:50 Glenn’s latest book, Self-Censorship54:11 Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn1:04:02 Glenn on Gaza: “I can’t bear it.”1:17:27 “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints1:26:58 Has Trump’s anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech?1:36:58 A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss1:46:44 Are Israel’s defenders hurting their cause?1:52:14 Glenn’s next big projectRecorded September 15, 2025 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
The Glenn Show is almost entirely listener supported. We need your help in order to keep bringing you the conversations you can't hear anywhere else. To get early episodes and much, much more, become a full subscriber at my Substack.You can keep tabs on Clifton’s progress and support his work at his Substack, Becoming Thomas Sowell.Video Links0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and the collapse of the“bluegeois” paradigm9:47 Ground News ad11:30 Ideological gatekeeping in the arts17:02 The Gamergate-ification of everything25:50 John: Wokeness isn’t dead, it’s changed shape33:11 Clifton’s one-man show in-progress, Becoming Thomas Sowell35:21 Sowell at Cornell40:10 The challenge to Sowell’s conception of “the civil rights vision”43:36 The pressures of bringing Sowell to the stage45:58 Clifton: I think of Sowell as “the people’s intellectual”Recorded September 20, 2025Links and ReadingsJohn and Clifton’s previous conversation on The Glenn ShowClifton’s Substack, Becoming Thomas SowellThomas Sowell’s book, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political StrugglesSowell’s book, Knowledge and DecisionsThurgood on Amazon PrimeSowell’s book, Black Education: Myths and TragediesDonald Downs’s book, Cornell ‘69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American UniversitySowell’s book, On Classical EconomicsMark Whitaker’s book, Saying It Loud: 1966—the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights MovementSowell’s book, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?Jason Riley’s latest appearance on TGSJason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas SowellSowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn our latest Q&A, John McWhorter and I take questions on troubled black communities, the N-word, issues on which we've changed our minds, ratcheting down political tensions in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, and how we handle personal security. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported. If you like what you hear, head over to my Substack and become a full subscriber. You'll get monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, and a whole lot more.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast Friday, I hosted a livestream featuring Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and call-ins from viewers. Once again, our topic is the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We talk about my own cancelation by the Manhattan Institute, warding off the tyranny of the majority, the worrisome comments of truly powerful people like Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Pam Bondi, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s intervention in the Kirk debates, and what I dream the leader of our nation would say (and still can say) as the post-assassination temperature continues to rise. I talk with callers about the dynamics of backlash, plausible deniability, and the spiritual impetus to ease political tensions.Listen, I need your help. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a measly $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content. Subscribe at https://glennloury.substack.com
Support The Glenn Show at https:/.glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Why Marc thinks nothing works6:45 Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs?12:50 Penn Station and public interest logjams20:29 Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work28:17 Two progressive conceptions of power33:03 Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power39:05 Ok, nothing works. So how do we get things working?51:28 Marc: We need a return to Hamiltonian governing55:03 The new class of moderate Democrats trying to get things doneRecorded September 6, 2025Links and ReadingsMarc’s new book, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It BackMarc’s book, The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American CommunityRobert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityRobert Caro’s book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkEzra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, AbundanceJennifer Pahlka’s book, Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do BetterYoni Applebaum’s book, Stuck: How the Privileged and Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity 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
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, co-hosted with my editor Mark Sussman, I talk with viewers about the murders of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska, the “black crime” canard, the effects of immigration on black employment, and other weighty topics. It wasn’t all doom and gloom, though. A call from Richard Kim—a newly tenured professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago—gave me the opportunity to reminisce about Father Richard John Neuhaus, a friend who offered me great comfort during one of the most difficult periods of my life. And of course, we hear from Robert Patton-Spruill aka the Landlord Guy aka the Housing Provider aka the Evil Landlord.In order to keep doing these streams and recording weekly episodes of The Glenn Show, I need your help. Anybody can tune into our livestreams as they happen. But if you’d like to watch the video later, you’ll need to become a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me extend a heartfelt thank you. And if you’re not yet a full subscriber, please consider becoming one. The Glenn Show can only do what it does through the generosity of viewers and listeners. For a measly $6/month or $50/year, you’ll get weekly episodes of The Glenn Show earlier than their public release, monthly Q&A episodes with John McWhorter, access to the full Substack archives, and other exclusive bonus content. To subscribe, go to https://glennloury.substack.com
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 The upcoming Hoover Institution conference honoring Thomas Sowell 5:37 Sowell’s apprentice work at the University of Chicago 12:58 Ground News ad 14:45 Hayek’s influence on Sowell 19:55 Jason: No one is smarter than the market 24:58 The unconstrained vision vs. the constrained vision 33:04 Sowell’s contribution to economic literacy 37:44 Sowell’s tough early life and his path to Marx ]47:55 Jason: Sowell’s willingness to weigh in on race hurt his career 53:58 Sowell’s evisceration of The Bell CurveRecorded on August 25, 2025Links and ReadingsJason’s writing for the Wall Street JournalJason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas SowellThoma Sowell’s memoir, A Personal JourneySowell’s book, Knowledge and DecisionsSowell’s book, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political ConflictSowell’s book, Ethnic America: A HistorySowell’s book, Race and CultureSowell’s book, Migration and Cultures: A World ViewFriedrich Von Hayek’s essay, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”Hayek’s review of Knowledge and DecisionsMary Shelley’s novel, FrankensteinSowell’s book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social PolicySowell’s book, The Quest for Cosmic JusticeMilton Friedman’s TV show, Free to ChooseRichard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeSowell’s American Spectator review of The Bell Curve, “Ethnicity and IQ” 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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Comments (33)

Charles Puckett

McWhorter is a blaten racist, blacks have no chance to succeed as long as they listen to people like him. I am unsubcribing to your podcast. I do not listen to the "other side" when they are so incompetent.

Nov 11th
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Charles Puckett

I know Joshua Cohen is a friend of yours, but he did not impress me at all. His lack of knowledge of the Tump NY case was amazing. The same as most people who do not pay attention and simply watch the mainstream media, as when he said that a jurer got his news from truth social...wrong..he said he saw Trump posts from Truth Social on X and followed the usual NYT & CNN. People like Joshua who do not take the time to educate themselves should not be given a platform.

Jun 7th
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Will Shogren

He'd benefit mightily from reading something as simple as Michael Parenti and letting it sink in.

May 2nd
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Will Shogren

Glenn is conveniently overlooking the absolute fucking horror show that was the free market looting of the USSR and its satellites in the 90s and beyond. Mass death, infant mortality, alcoholism, suicide, prostitution and sex trafficking of all kinds, homelessness, hunger. All of these things spiked after the free market got its grubby little mits on socialist countries. I have serious criticisms of those countries where civil liberties were concerned but we need to get serious here.

May 2nd
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Will Shogren

Any non-Jewish person who *isn't* venomously critical of Israel at this point is a coward or a sack of shit. Personal pathologies aren't my problem and Norm of all people should know that.

May 2nd
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Jane Smith

this probably could've been a decent conversation but I'm not going to listen to some tool talk about how idf is big and bad and that justifies rape, slaughter, and kidnapping. kidnapping of babies no less. it's a stupid position to take and I feel like I lost brain cells just listening to a bit of what that moron said.

Feb 4th
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little red book

Maybe Hamas wants to kill all the Jews like they say they want to? Maybe Jewish students barricaded in a library with a baying mob outside have a right to be afraid? Or Jewish students walking across Harvard Yard being physically intimidated have a right to be concerned? "From the river to the sea" is a call for genocide and you can't just hand wave that away. And it was chanted on college campuses before Israel even responded. Free speech doesn't cover incitement to violence.

Nov 24th
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Nick Rosato

thank you for that conversation.

Dec 14th
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William Butler

great discussion

Dec 12th
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jonathan

this guy knows statistics, but he doesn't understand. He argues for incapacitation, yet his proposed policies would keep people in prison well past their risk of committing crimes.

Oct 29th
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jonathan

that was...awkward, lol.

Jul 13th
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c s

Never before have I encountered someone so confident and patronizing --- who is simultaneously unable to craft an argument with any semblance of coherence. It is one of the most frustrating discussions I've ever listened to or been a participant in. She would have been magical in the Monty Python skit where John Cleese walks into an office looking for an argument. Her style is combativeness masquerading as intelligent, reasoned discourse.

Apr 30th
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Punkfake

She’s naive and her brain has been filled with post modern nonsense that cannot stand up to any scrutiny. Several times she come right up against her own self contradictory views and is incapable of recognizing them as such.

Apr 22nd
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Jay Sanzo

This was one of the most interesting, stimulating and thought provoking podcasts I've heard in a very long time.

Dec 26th
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Kiat Huang

If I was pushed, these fine gentleman "meeting little green men from a UFO in Central Park" would be more earth-shattering a story than a (possibly despicable) human suing a bunch of other people.

Nov 27th
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ID17714573

Thank you for this

Jun 14th
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Ash Yonge

the elect

Mar 22nd
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The Heretic

loving the improved sound quality

Jan 25th
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Noah Blaff

40 minutes in

Nov 10th
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Sean Cody

Impeccably honest analysis of black lives matter. Essential listening.

Jun 8th
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