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0:00 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 lining in the economy under tariffs
41:32 The hypothetical third-party billionaire who could defeat Trump
44:46 The social security Ponzi scheme
54:50 Larry’s plan for fixing social security
57:29 Are other aging nations facing the same social security crisis as the US?
1:02:23 The failure of checks and balances
Recorded April 4, 2025
Links and Readings
Larry’s Substack
Larry’s company, Economic Security Planning
The MaxiFi Planner
TIPs Ladder
Rajiv Sethi’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Larry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s Economy
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For 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.
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0:00 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 Democratic Party needs to ask itself why it lost to Trump
34:48 The black allies of class-based affirmative action
40:53 Is vocational training a viable alternative to four years of college?
44:48 Addressing the development problem among black students
52:52 Rick’s hopes for a new Democratic Party
Links and Readings
Rick’s new book, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
Pew poll on race and ethnicity in college admissions
Glenn and John’s 2023 conversation with Peter Arcidiacono
The 1966 Coleman report, Equality of Educational Opportunity
Rick’s book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Rick’s Atlantic piece, “Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall”
Progressive Policy Institute
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0:36 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 administration
33:06 Columbia’s new measures against antisemitism
38:09 The opportunistic adoption of contested phrases
43:27 How bad is the antisemitism problem at Barnard and Columbia?
50:44 Who has the authority to police Columbia’s MESAAS scholars?
1:00:55 Facing the prospect of Trump-generated American brain drain
Recorded March 23, 2025
Links and Readings
Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Rajiv’s post April 2024 post, “Minority Report”
FIRE’s 2024 Faculty Survey
Rajiv’s post, “The Lion Hath Roared”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “Working Definition of Antisemitism”
Eli Lake’s X post questioning the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil
Preorder Glenn’s book, Self-Censorship
Noam Dworman moderates a debate between Eli Lake and Norman Finkelstein
Lex Friedman hosts a debate between Norman Finkelstein, Mouin Rabbani, Benny Morris, and Destiny
Dworman interviews Rashid Khalidi
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Mari Matsuda’s Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
Killer Mike’s 2024 FIRE keynote
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I 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 give my take on the topics. I address Trump and the economy, Trump’s predictability and unpredictability, DOGE and MAGA’s slashing of the federal government, Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, antisemitism, and attacks on Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging stations. This is a bit of an experiment—my team and I wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a shot. Let me know how it’s working for you in the comments.
These pieces are all quite relevant as of this posting, on Monday afternoon. But by Friday? Who knows. So I decided to release this episode simultaneously to both free and full subscribers. If you like getting The Glenn Show a few days early, consider becoming a full subscriber. You’ll get new episodes early, plus access to monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, bonus episodes, and other exclusive content.
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2:31 The opportunities and risks of Trump's economic plans
6:50 Is Trump as unpredictable as he seems?
16:00 DOGE and MAGA take a chainsaw to the federal government
22:30 An argument against Mahmoud Khalil's detention ...
32:49 ... and one in favor of Khalil's detention
41:38 Is it time for an official ban on antisemitism?
49:14 Teslas are burning
Recorded March 14, 2025
Links and Readings
Steve Cortes’s RCP piece, “Trump and the Economy: Opportunities and Risks”
Susan Glasser’s New Yorker piece, “Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us What He’s Going to Do?”
Tim Murtaugh’s Washington Times piece, “Why the Democrat Brand Is in the Toilet”
Jeff Mayhugh’s Hill piece, “The MAGA Revolution Is Playing with Fire”
Ross Barkan’s NYMag piece, “Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Will Backfire on Trump”
Josh Hammer’s Daily Signal piece, “Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty”
Mackenzie France’s RCP piece, “Congress Should Pass Antisemitism Awareness Act”
Rich Lowry’s New York Post piece, “Tesla Terrorism Only Reveals the Left’s Impotence”
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0:00 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 solution
34:34 The “dirty little secret” of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Jewish critics
37:12 The idolatry of the Jewish state
39:45 The mutual liberation of Jews and Palestinians
41:37 Why aren’t the critics of snowflakes and trigger warnings defending pro-Palestinian campus protesters?
46:01 Peter: Antisemitism is on the rise, and ethno-nationalism is the reason
50:20 Peter: If Gaza is unlivable, then Gazans should be allowed to live where they want
Recorded February 21, 2025
Links and Readings
Peter’s Substack, The Beinart Notebook
Jewish Currents magazine
Peter’s new book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message
Eitan Hersh and Laura Loyden’s article, “Antisemitic Attitudes across the Ideological Spectrum”
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In 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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0:00 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 show
Recorded March 1, 2025
Links and Readings
Trump and Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting
Tucker Carlson’s onstage interview with Hungarian president Victor Orbán
The latest episode of Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast, America This Week
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”
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In this month's Substack subscriber Q&A, John and I answer your questions on the NAACP, Trump and January 6, Western civilization, how we deal with angry viewers, and more.
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In this bonus episode, Mark, Nikita, and I discuss Trump's chaotic Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, parsing positions from principles, and the fate of Ukraine.
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Today I'm posting a bonus episode of the Glenn Show with University of Pennsylvania Law professor Amy Wax. Unfortunately, Amy experienced some recording difficulties, which resulted in an episode that does not meet our usual standards for audio fidelity and clarity. Rather than post it here in the podcast feed, we've opted to post only the video with subtitles under Amy's side of the conversation. You can find that video right now by going to glennloury.substack.com
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0:00 A note on audio quality
1:08 Glenn: I may not agree with Amy about everything, but I defend her right to speak her mind
4:17 Amy: What’s wrong with Trump evaluating how federal research money is spent?
12:54 The accusations against Amy
19:17 Did Amy violate students’ privacy?
21:44 What it’s not okay to say at Penn
31:52 Amy’s lawsuit against Penn
36:21 Glenn: Aren’t your free speech claims and you civil rights claims contradictory?
38:33 Amy: This is bigger than me
42:11 Can university research infrastructure survive defunding under Trump?
48:32 Glenn: I’m unnerved by the implications of the anti-DEI movement
Recorded February 17, 2025
Links and Readings
The Harvard Salient magazine
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1:00 Conn’s career in the conservative movement
4:34 The four sexual revolutions
14:17 What about feminism and LGBTQ rights?
20:25 Conn: “We spend over a trillion dollars a year on means-tested programs that punish marriage”
24:30 How online gambling is hurting working-class men
29:02 What are the benefits of marriage?
34:03 Why Conn thinks single-parenthood disproportionately harms boys
37:12 The link between political and domestic structures
44:49 Will Trump enact policies that promote marriage?
48:42 Conn: We should strengthen obscenity laws in order to restrain online porn
55:52 The conservative case for birthright citizenship
Recorded February 11, 2025
Links and Readings
Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy
David Blankenhorn’s book, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese’s report on pornography
Conn’s Washington Examiner piece, “The Conservative Case for Birthright Citizenship”
George Borjas’s books on labor and immigration
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In this bonus episode, Glenn, Nikita, and Mark discuss Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's alleged "Nazi salutes," whether Trump is serious about Canada and Greenland, and what counts as a serious question.
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0:55 The myth of a secret black language
6:36 The terror of slavery in James
12:13 Essential fictions
15:45 Ground News ad
17:30 Liberal panic over Trump and DOGE
24:10 Is NYC mayor Eric Adams under Trump’s thumb?
26:54 Glenn: What’s wrong with telling illegal migrants to leave?
33:40 ACTA ad
35:54 The differing challenges of European and American immigration
44:08 The significance of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance
52:17 What’s wrong with Ye?
Recorded February 16, 2025
Links and Readings
John’s latest NYT column, “The Truth and the Fiction of Black English”
Percival Everett’s novel, James
Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure
Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye
Allan Gurganus’s novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Francis Burney’s novel, Evelina
R.F. Kuang’s novel, Babel, or, the Necessity of Violence
Gil-Scot Heron’s song, “Whitey on the Moon”
Tucker Carlson interviews Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show
John’s book, All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America
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Glenn and John take questions from Substack subscribers in this Q&A episode.
1:02 Pat Rimell presents a list of propositions about general poverty in urban communities
17:54 Samuel D. James asks if John has any writing advice
23:35 Tom Wojciaczyk wants to know if what the difference is between an accent and pronunciation
30:50 Michael asks why we’re not more worried about Trump taking us back to the nuclear brinksmanship of the Cold War
39:03 Karen Dawn Norris offers two defenses of reparations
43:34 Young Törless asks, since we use the term “blackness” so often, if we could come up with a definition of it that would satisfy such disparate figures as Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley, Condoleezza Rice, Raven-Symone, and Iman
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1:10 Which race-conscious programs stay and which go?
11:05 Ground News ad
12:42 Glenn: I’m afraid some African Americans might get left behind
19:25 More programs won’t address the problems of “the underclass”
27:49 John: Maybe this is the best it can be
31:22 The great benefits of HBCUs
35:35 ACTA ad
37:48 Ibram X. Kendi decamps for Howard
44:49 Studying the African diaspora
51:35 The passing of Belle da Costa Greene
1:02:29 Is colorism within the black community still an issue?
Recorded February 2, 2025
Links and Readings
Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist
The Woodson Center
James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses
John’s NYT column, “Black and White Weren’t Always as Black-and-White as They Seem”
Hilton Als’s New Yorker piece, “The Hidden Story of J.P. Morgan’s Library”
Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom’s America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible
Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
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1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published
7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing
9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment
17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024
23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets?
31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008
35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists
39:26 Secular backsliding in India
43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive order
Recorded January 25, 2025
Links and Readings
Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Rajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover”
James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Glenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorship
Glenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality”
Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversation
Rajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment”
Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat”
Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit”
John Cochrane’s review of Late Admissions
Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution
Gyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, Kismet
Rajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice
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In this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference.
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1:08 Intros
4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign
9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings
15:31 Ground News ad
17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy?
23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war
30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold?
33:28 ACTA ad
38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war
48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US?
52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war
56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent?
1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora
1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war?
1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025
Links and Readings
Trailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking History
Matthew’s YouTube show, History Speaks
Airwars
Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report
Yuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza”
Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets”
Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza”
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In this post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.
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