John McWhorter – Glenn and John Live at Brown University

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0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
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0:21.8	Thank you.
0:23.5	Okay.
0:24.0	Good evening, everybody.
0:25.8	We are going to get started with a mini preview of our main event with Professor
0:33.7	Glenn C. Lowry and Professor John McWhorter.
0:36.9	So I will introduce myself. I'll introduce
0:39.2	Professor Lowry. And then we will all keep our fingers crossed about Amtrak. And eventually we'll
0:45.2	introduce Professor McWhorter. We have a series of questions that we will pose for a dialogue
0:51.3	between Professor Lowry and McWhorter, but I'll start it off.
0:56.6	And then we will leave about 10 to 15 minutes for questions.
1:02.9	Okay, so I'm Wendy Schiller.
1:05.2	I'm the interim director of the Watson Institute.
1:07.9	And this is our last public event in our dialogue across difference series at the Watson Institute. And this is our last public event in our dialogue across different series
1:13.6	at the Watson Institute this year. And as some of you may have heard, there's very exciting news.
1:19.9	We have a dean of the new school, the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International Public Affairs,
1:26.2	Professor John Friedman of the Econ Economics
1:28.6	Department here at Brown. That was announced yesterday, and so we're all very excited and looking
1:34.0	forward to what he will bring to the table to launch this school. So the dialogue across
1:43.2	different series was launched by Watson this year
1:46.1	to present views on key issues of the day
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