John McWhorter, Cornel West & Robert George – Truth, Faith, and Reason in an Age of Division

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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
0:06.7	As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter, exclusive content and other benefits. Thank you.
0:23.4	Hello, everybody. Thanks for tuning in to the Glenn Show. This is Glenn Laudy. I'm with my
0:27.5	conversation partner and co-host John McWhorter. I teach at Brown University. John teaches at Columbia
0:33.4	University and he writes for the New York Times. We're joined this week by Robert George, who is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
0:43.6	at Princeton University, where he directs the James Madison Program for the Study
0:48.7	of American Ideals and Institutions, and Cornell West, who is Dietrich Bonhofer professor of philosophy and
0:58.6	Christian practice at the Union Theological Seminary and is a former presidential candidate in
1:08.2	the last cycle. Some of you will know.
1:16.4	Robbie and Cornell are co-authors of a small book,
1:20.2	which is, in effect, transcript of a series of conversations that they undertook in New York City over the years 2022 and 2023 called Truth Matters,
1:31.9	a dialogue on fruitful disagreement in an age of division.
1:37.9	Provocative and wide-ranging conversations,
1:40.1	the copy here I'm looking at tells us recorded in New York City in three sessions during the fall
1:46.6	of 2023 in the spring of 2024, where imprompting and directing that the discussion emphasis was
1:53.7	placed on relating current issues to deeper questions of knowledge, faith, and the search for
1:58.9	truth and common ground. It goes on. So welcome, Robbie, welcome
2:06.0	Cornell. And hey there, John. Hey, Glenn. Hey, folks. We are living in interesting times. The universities
2:14.3	are under attack, are they not? The citadels of the production of knowledge
2:19.4	and the preservation of our civilization seem to be in the crosshairs, politically speaking.
2:26.3	And if truth ever mattered, it certainly matters now. And the sources of our production,
2:33.0	of our insights into the truth seem to be under attack. I wonder what
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 15 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Glenn Loury, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Glenn Loury and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.