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0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin
5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy
9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats
17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?
21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex
28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect
35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook
42:04 What you can’t say about war
45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests
55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition
1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy
Recorded March 21, 2024
Links and Readings
Michael’s Substack, Public
University of Austin
Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The WPATH Files
John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”
John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”
Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson
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A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.
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0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS
4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts
9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first
13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists
16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior
21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution
27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools
35:19 The redlining debate
40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct
44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb”
46:38 What’s causing low police morale?
50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden
55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse today
Recorded March 30, 2024
Links and Readings
Keith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Glenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis
Glenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix
Glenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentary
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three”
Radley Balko’s response to Coleman Hughes
Alpha News
Rucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments”
John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism”
Equal Justice Initiative website
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Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.
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0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn
4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself
10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”
18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment
24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI
34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?
43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’t
Recorded March 20, 2024
Links and Readings
Amy’s 2021 TGS appearance
Amy’s 2022 TGS appearance
The leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendations
Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles Murray
Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Amy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review
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0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West
3:32 John’s awards show allergy
6:41 The realness of American Fiction
14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision
21:56 The SATs are on their way back
23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.
26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?
38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness
41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?
46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?
51:08 Debating the presidential debates
Recorded March 16, 2024
Links and Readings
American Fiction trailer
Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure
Rustin trailer
Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”
John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994
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0:00 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice
5:28 Loving the criminal offender
8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of marijuana?
14:59 Christianity and the legal use of force
20:39 Matthew: I cannot enter the public square without considering my faith
24:48 Determining justice in a fallen world
29:35 What’s wrong with criminal justice today?
31:48 The problem of prosecutorial immunity
38:43 Matthew’s take on George Floyd
43:16 Has the criminal justice system truly reformed itself on race matters?
50:00 The denial of bail and the denial of justice
56:37 Matthew: We don’t have quick, accurate, reliable verdicts
1:02:41 Why Matthew opposes the death penalty “as currently practiced in the United States”
1:08:21 How ordinary Americans can help
Recorded February 28, 2024
Links and Readings
Matthew’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal
Richard John Neuhaus’s book, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America
Philip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present
National Register of Exonerations
St. Irenaeus’s Against Heresies
Kellen Funk and Sandra Mayson’s Harvard Law Review article, “Bail at the Founding”
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0:00 What makes an “elite”?
4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood
7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption
12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force
17:23 The uses of military discipline
22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman at Yale
24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital
29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police?
35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee
40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding
46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon
52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative”
58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction
Recorded February 19, 2024
Links and Readings
Rob’s memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Rob’s Substack
Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less”
Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford”
Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"
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0:00 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me
6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial?
16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for a confrontation with Ellison?
23:30 Shane’s account of civil decay in Minneapolis
29:24 Shane: The radicals are in charge
35:30 What’s causing the anti-police sentiment in Minneapolis
40:40 Violent crime in the George Floyd Square “autonomous zone”
49:39 Shane: Even liberals need to vote Republican in local Minneapolis elections
54:36 The Fani Willis issue in Georgia
Recorded February 24, 2024
Links and Readings
Keith Ellison’s book, Breaking the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Glenn and John’s episode, “The Fall of Minneapolis Reconsidered”
Radley Balko’s response to Glenn, John, and Coleman Hughes
Rajiv Sethi and Brendan O’Flaherty book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crimes, and the Pursuit of Justice
Shane’s website
Shane’s Alpha News piece on the community meeting about the new Minneapolis Third Precinct location
Crime Watch Minneapolis’s X page
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy
3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society
10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status
18:29 Why Corey supports the police
21:47 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago
23:25 The Rooftop Pastor
25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism
29:56 Project HOOD
33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools
37:02 Class differences within the black community
Recorded January 31, 2024
Links and Readings
New Beginnings Church
Project HOOD
Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”
Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange
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0:00 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics
7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era
9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative
12:48 The two sides of black “progress”
17:24 Shermichael: Identity matters, even for conservatives
21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration
28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency
32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?
37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump
40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse
50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn
56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days
58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn
Recorded January 4, 2024
Links and Readings
Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)
Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired
Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse
Hit Strategies
American Cornerstone Institute
The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts
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0:00 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue?
7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John
17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin?
19:55 Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?
25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics
28:26 The problem with colorblindness
36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”
43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around
52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin
Recorded February 11, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”
Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis
Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix
Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd”
Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
The trailer for Rustin
Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”
A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher
Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin
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0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses
4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine
9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test
12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem
18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”
21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir
25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling
27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now
30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets
42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree
46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists
49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates
51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings
56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success
Recorded January 26, 2024
Links and Readings
Noam Dworman’s TGS appearance
Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table
Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table
Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis
Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table
Benny Morris on Live from the Table
Tara Henley’s Lean Out
Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom
Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report
University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression
Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin
Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict
Rajiv and Brendan O’Flahery’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and Pursuit of Justice
Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”
Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”
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0:00 Why Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel
5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve
8:49 Loyalty among friends during the Gaza War
13:15 The blowback from Brown’s ceasefire letter
17:18 Talking about Israel across the ideological spectrum
19:42 Glenn: Loyalty tests are unreasonable
23:16 Trying to understand the human costs of war
26:26 Glenn: There is no decent alternative to a two-state solution
33:32 “Apartheid,” “genocide,” and other potentially unhelpful terms
39:29 Noam: Thank God for President Biden
44:13 Why Noam is worried about American attitudes toward Israel
49:08 Will the Gaza War end up strengthening Hamas?
56:08 The tone-deafness of some supporters of Israel
Recorded January 31, 2023
Links and Readings
Noam’s podcast, Live from the Table
The Glenn Show Live at the Comedy Cellar
Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar
Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray
The Brown University faculty’s ceasefire letter
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer
Glenn’s most recent conversation with Robert Wright
Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Aaron Maté’s appearance on Noam’s podcast
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0:00 John: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin
6:50 Has DEI taken a hit after the Gay controversy?
13:50 When “DEI” really means “racial preferences”
22:12 The case of Neri Oxman
23:52 John: Bill Ackman looks “absurd”
26:47 Three cheers for John’s dinosaurs
28:22 Is Glenn really a “black conservative”?
31:11 The three dimensions of black conservatism
37:50 Black elites and immigration
42:35 Ibram X. Kendi undeterred
44:48 Roland Fryer is still standing
46:48 Is Amy Wax getting railroaded by Penn?
Recorded January 27, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “We Need a New Word for ‘Plagiarism’”
Elon Musk’s DEI airline post on X
Neri Oxman’s CV
Adolph Reed’s essay, “‘What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?’: The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual” (originally published in the Village Voice, April 11, 1995)
Wilfred Reilly’s comparative IQ post on X
Recording of Amy Wax’s FIRE webinar
Glenn’s December 2021 episode with Amy Wax
Glenn’s August 2022 episode with Amy Wax
Charles Murray’s book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Race, Gender, and Class
Glenn’s conversation with Charles Murray
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0:00 The many, many books of David Kaiser
3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard
6:09 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard
10:03 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism
12:35 Intellectuals in the wild
14:28 How James Bryant Conant built the modern Harvard …
17:33 … and how it was broken
18:52 Glenn’s previous conversation with Omer Bartov
24:12 Why David thinks the Gaza War falls short of genocide but maybe not ethnic cleansing
25:51 What Claudine Gay could (and maybe should) have said at her congressional hearing
27:51 Why David thinks originalists will have a problem rejecting attempts to remove Trump from electoral ballots
32:38 David: Mitch McConnell should have impeached Trump when he had the chance
36:07 David’s new book, States of the Union
41:03 Have state of the union addresses always been as boring as they are now?
44:55 Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, and their legacies
57:37 Why Obama didn’t propose a New New Deal after the 2008 financial crisis
1:01:01 Biden’s silence
Recorded January 10, 2024
Links and Readings
David’s book, Economic Diplomacy and the Origin of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939
David’s book, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler
David’s book, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War
David’s book, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
David’s book, Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017
David’s book, NFL 1965: The Most Exciting Season
David’s book, A Life in History
David’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023
Glenn’s previous conversation with David
Fareed Zakaria on elite universities
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
David’s blog, History Unfolding
David’s blog post about the Fourteenth Amendment
Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States
John F. Kennedy’s June 11, 1963 address on segregation
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If you missed Wednesday’s City Journal and Manhattan Institute-hosted livestream, I’ve got you covered. Today I’m releasing the recording of that livestream as a special bonus episode. This event marked the publication of my City Journal essay “Clarence Thomas and Me,” and I had a stellar line-up alongside me to discuss the essay and the work of Clarence Thomas: Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute, Robert George of Princeton, and Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School.
0:00 Introductions
2:58 Why Glenn wrote “Clarence Thomas and Me”
5:27 Randall: “Justice Thomas trades on his blackness”
10:58 Glenn: Clarence Thomas has not “betrayed black people”
12:30 Thomas’s engagement with natural law jurisprudence
19:29 How would Thomas have come down on Brown v. Board of Education?
20:55 The loyalty trap
24:20 Randall: Thomas’s originalism may also commit him to sanctioning segregation
28:24 Robbie: There are originalist interpretations that support Brown v. Board of Education
34:07 Thomas’s race cases
36:03 Glenn: Thomas can act as both a principled jurist and as an advocate for the rights of African Americans
40:56 Randall: In 100 years, people will regard Shelby County v. Holder as one of the worst decisions in the Court’s history
44:36 Maintaining integrity under pressure
51:22 What are the differences between Thomas’s, Scalia’s, and Alito’s originalisms?
55:30 Will Thomas have broader popularity in the future?
1:01:10 Is racial solidarity inconsistent with judicial impartiality?
1:03:30 Closing remarks
Recorded January 17, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Clarence Thomas and Me”
Glenn’s book, One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America
Michael McConnell’s article, “The Originalist Case for Brown v. Board of Education”
Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick’s book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit
Lon Fuller’s book, The Morality of Law
The documentary on Clarence Thomas, Created Equal
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0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now)
8:59 A ringing endorsement from John
10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024?
15:28 Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character”
16:20 What would King have thought of Claudine Gay?
20:20 King’s radicalism
25:54 John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist
28:10 The Tabia Lee affair at D’Anza Community College
29:58 How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal
32:47 Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard”
35:57 How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up
41:41 John’s upcoming cabaret show
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “Claudine Gay Was Not Driven Out Because She Is Black”
Glenn’s conversation with Tabia Lee
“All’s Fair in Love and War” from Gold Diggers of 1937
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0:00 The long road leading to the Gaza War
9:14 Don’t Palestinians have some responsibility for the current state of affairs?
9:48 The precedent of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
11:26 Omer: Israel only negotiates under pressure
13:31 Netanyahu and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
15:27 The US’s military support for Israel
16:32 The origins of Hamas
20:20 Omer: Netanyahu’s coalition is “a mirror image of Hamas”
24:45 The threat to democracy in Israel
26:27 Omer: Netanyahu is driving the country to the right in order to avoid a corruption trial
30:07 How “Jewish supremacists” have gained control of Israel’s government
34:01 Why Omer’s Zionism does not commit him to defending Israel’s actions
36:46 The risk of genocide in Gaza
40:05 The IDF’s procedure in the Gaza invasion
43:09 What will happen to the Gazan refugees?
45:00 The international community’s role in finding a resolution to the Gaza War
48:17 Is the IDF “the most moral army in the world”?
54:39 The revenge motive
57:07 Omer: The campaign in Gaza is a fiasco
59:38 A US-led plan for “the day after”
1:04:37 Is peace in Israel a pollyannaish pipe dream?
Recorded January 2, 2023
Links and Readings
Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Omer’s New Statesman piece, “Both Netanyahu and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity”
Hamas’s 1988 charter
Omer’s NYT op-ed, “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide”
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I had planned to release the first Glenn and John episode of 2024 on New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and John and I could not record as scheduled. So instead, my staff put together this collection of some of our favorite clips from 2023. John and I covered a lot of ground last year. Here you’ll see us addressing African American performance on standardized tests, the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision, the riots of 2020, the Gaza War, and other big topics on the show.
0:00 A New Year's message from Glenn
2:36 How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else?
11:15 Glenn goes in on the 2020 riots
16:34 John: I love linguistics, but linguistics no longer loves me
25:37 Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment?
34:58 When the smoke clears in Gaza
45:34 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death
54:32 Glenn and John revisit their first conversation
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