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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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I spent part of last week visiting Stanford University, and John is off taking care of business in Australia. The time difference, travel, and speaking obligations made scheduling a recording impossible. So this week, I’ve got something a little different for you. Instead of recording a conversation on the day’s news with John, I decided to record one on my own. In this episode, I talk through some opinion pieces that grabbed my attention and give my take on the topics. I address Trump and the economy, Trump’s predictability and unpredictability, DOGE and MAGA’s slashing of the federal government, Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, antisemitism, and attacks on Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging stations. This is a bit of an experiment—my team and I wanted to see what would happen if I gave it a shot. Let me know how it’s working for you in the comments.

These pieces are all quite relevant as of this posting, on Monday afternoon. But by Friday? Who knows. So I decided to release this episode simultaneously to both free and full subscribers. If you like getting The Glenn Show a few days early, consider becoming a full subscriber. You’ll get new episodes early, plus access to monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, bonus episodes, and other exclusive content.

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2:31 The opportunities and risks of Trump's economic plans

6:50 Is Trump as unpredictable as he seems?

16:00 DOGE and MAGA take a chainsaw to the federal government

22:30 An argument against Mahmoud Khalil's detention ...

32:49 ... and one in favor of Khalil's detention

41:38 Is it time for an official ban on antisemitism?

49:14 Teslas are burning

Recorded March 14, 2025

Links and Readings

Steve Cortes’s RCP piece, “Trump and the Economy: Opportunities and Risks”

Susan Glasser’s New Yorker piece, “Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us What He’s Going to Do?”

Tim Murtaugh’s Washington Times piece, “Why the Democrat Brand Is in the Toilet”

Jeff Mayhugh’s Hill piece, “The MAGA Revolution Is Playing with Fire”

Ross Barkan’s NYMag piece, “Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Will Backfire on Trump”

Josh Hammer’s Daily Signal piece, “Mahmoud Khalil and the Red-Green Assault on American Sovereignty”

Mackenzie France’s RCP piece, “Congress Should Pass Antisemitism Awareness Act”

Rich Lowry’s New York Post piece, “Tesla Terrorism Only Reveals the Left’s Impotence”

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0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
0:06.6	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.
0:25.0	Hi, this is Glenn Lauri and this is the Glenn Show.
0:29.7	Ordinarily every other week, I have a conversation with my partner, John McWhorter,
0:36.5	and we talk about, well, everything under the sun.
0:40.3	We talk about the news. We talk about what's on our mind, what's going on in our lives,
0:44.3	what we had for breakfast this morning, and such. John and I are old buddies. We've been talking
0:52.3	periodically since 2007 for the Glenn Show since its inception.
0:59.0	And it can be entertaining, it can be infuriating.
1:04.0	It's usually a good time, though.
1:07.0	And John is not here this week.
1:10.0	He is in Australia, returning in a few days, but unable to record for this week's episode,
1:17.6	as the schedule would otherwise require.
1:20.6	We miss him.
1:21.6	We miss you, John.
1:23.6	Notwithstanding your knuckleheaded positions on some of the issues on which you and I disagree,
1:29.3	like Donald J. Trump, for example, or like war and peace in Ukraine and Gaza and so on.
1:38.3	But we agree on so much more, and we nevertheless are able to exchange our views and our disagreements
1:47.0	in a way that remains agreeable and people seem to like that.
1:50.5	I don't know.
1:51.7	I don't quite get it, but they do.
1:54.5	But in any case, John's not here.
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