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The Glenn Show: Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison – Is the World Headed Toward “Mutual Ruin”?

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek’s podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/join Order Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship, here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww Video Links 0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship […]

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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.

0:21.8

Thank you.

0:23.5

Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.

0:26.0

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson,

0:30.1

and I am extremely genuinely excited to welcome to the podcast today.

0:34.7

My old friend, Glenn Lowry, you know him, but just to repeat,

0:39.2

Glenn is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, Professor

0:43.7

Emeritus of Economics, and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Brown

0:48.4

University, and he's also the host of the excellent The Glenn Show, which I have been listening

0:53.3

to in some form

0:54.5

or other since I think 2008. Glenn, I'll always remember after Obama was elected, you kept

1:00.7

on saying Barack Hussein Obama. And John McWhorter, your co-host was like, are you just going to

1:05.9

keep on saying Hussein? Because it was such a moment. I'll always remember that exactly where I was when I

1:12.8

listened to that podcast. It was in San Diego. But anyway, thank you for joining us. And we're here

1:16.8

to talk about your recently re-released book, Self Censorship, which was originally published

1:22.2

in 1994. And we'll get into that there. But Glenn, first of all, it's an honor to have you on

1:26.2

the podcast. Thank you so much.

1:34.8

Oh, Danny, thanks for the introduction. Good to be here. Hello, Derek. Derek said hello. You made me dive for the mute button, but it's very, very nice to have you. Congratulations.

1:39.8

We're releasing the book. So there's so much to talk about here, and I want to get into all of it, because this is a

1:48.3

book I think that was re-released in light of this, you know, contra temp, as it were,

1:54.5

over quote, unquote, wokeness or what have you.

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