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The Glenn Show

John McWhorter – The Post-Affirmative Action Class of 2028

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349

0:59 Glenn debuts his new studio

2:34 Life after academia

13:02 The challenge of having a lot of time on your hands

18:10 John’s new musical endeavors

20:20 Ground News ad

22:38 John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

25:07 Glenn and John form an impromptu book club

29:43 The first class of post-Students for Fair Admissions college freshmen

36:22 Are black students being shut out of the upper echelons of American society?

40:33 The Supreme Court’s “indirect beneficial endowment” to HBCUs

46:42 Glenn: “The wheel is turning” on race politics in America

52:18 ACTA ad

54:26 Plagiarism in Robin DiAngelo’s dissertation

57:02 John: I don’t recognize the world that Danzy Senna and Ketanji Brown Jackson describe, even though I lived in it

1:04:07 Did Thomas Chatterton Williams really say what he said to Danzy Senna?

Recorded September 8, 2024

Links and Readings

The Rest Is History on Apple Podcasts

Preorder John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

David Kaiser’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023

David Kaiser discusses his book States of the Union on TGS

Sari Nusseibeh’s memoir, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A Life

Danzy Senna’s novel, Colored Television

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One

John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

Michelle Obama’s DNC speech

Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race



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0:40.9

Woodson Center. Thank you.

0:46.0

Hey there, John McWorder, how are you?

0:48.0

Hi, Glenn. How are you?

0:50.0

I am doing very well in my new podcast studio, John, in the basement of my home.

0:57.0

And oh, is that where you are?

0:59.0

That's where I am.

1:01.0

It's not fully decorated.

1:02.0

Some of the pictures are on the floor rather than on the wall.

1:06.3

You might recognize this one, which is that famous photo of Louis Armstrong and company and I saw that yeah we're getting there we're getting to

1:19.6

where you can come and visit and we can do a live in person if you've got a weekend to spare and you want to come up to Providence and hang out, you know.

1:28.0

And then we would have a room. We could make a professional recording.

1:32.0

So this is our first, our inaugural conversation

1:36.0

in which I am making use of this new facility.

1:38.8

Well, there's multiple cameras,

1:41.9

multiple boom microphones. We're professionals. multiple

1:43.0

boom microphones we're professional down even this is gonna be your real thing now

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