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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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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
Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
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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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