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The Glenn Show

John McWhorter – The Private Side of Public Life

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

0:00 John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market

5:40 Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043?

17:03 Regret, doubt, and going against the tide

28:12 How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles

40:50 Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled?

52:47 What’s going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy?

Recorded March 5, 2023

Links and Readings

Ibram X. Kendi’s Zora Neale Hurston adaptation, Magnolia Flower

Melissa Harris Perry’s radio show, The Takeaway

Ishmael Reed’s novel, Reckless Eyeballing

Ishmael Reed’s essay collection, Another Day at the Front



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0:42.4

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0:46.2

We're underway at the Glendshow.

0:48.2

Glendlaury here at Brown University.

0:49.6

I'm with John McWater, Columbia University in the New York Times.

0:53.3

I am John Paulson Fellow, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

0:57.6

The Manhattan Institute sponsors the Glendshow.

1:00.0

Every other week, John McWater and I, Converse, and this is one of those times, hey, John.

1:06.7

My apologies to you, John, and to the audience that I am not at my normal workstation where

1:12.3

I have a very high-quality microphone and a really good camera, instead I'm with my

1:17.9

laptop in my dining room because, well, there's a computer problem up there and we're going

1:23.6

to get it worked out, but John's time being what it is.

1:26.8

You don't want to waste John's time, so I'm improvising.

1:32.3

It's Sunday, so yeah, I did actually lay down a lexicon valley podcast episode this morning

1:41.7

and so I'm doing the two podcasts today and one day and then you want to do apple sauce

1:48.8

with my girls later.

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