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The Glenn Show

John McWhorter and James Beaman – A Peek Behind the Antiracist Curtain

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

0:00 How the pandemic affected diversity in the theater

10:24 James gets drawn into an “antiracist” meltdown during rehearsal

21:08 James’s story of ostracism and Loving v. Virginia

26:58 Juilliard students revolt

39:19 A plea for mutual understanding in the theater

47:57 A preview of things to come on The Glenn Show

50:32 Glenn’s problem with “racial inequity”

59:18 Getting through to “Donna”

1:03:58 To speak your mind or to speak strategically?

Recorded November 27, 2022

Links and Readings

James’s homepage

Glenn and John’s conversation with Don Baton

John’s NYT piece, “‘Racism’ Without Racists”

Ronald Ferguson’s speech from Glenn’s festschrift



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1:03.4

We're with Jamie Beeman, James Beeman, and of course, my conversation partner every other

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week, John McWater.

1:10.6

Jamie is an actor and also an observer of the cultural scene on stage, and I concerned

1:18.4

observer to the extent that woke ideology is wreaking havoc in his field of study.

1:23.8

Let me now put words in his mouth.

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