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0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin
5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy
9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats
17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?
21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex
28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect
35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook
42:04 What you can’t say about war
45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests
55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition
1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy
Recorded March 21, 2024
Links and Readings
Michael’s Substack, Public
University of Austin
Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The WPATH Files
John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”
John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”
Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson


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A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.


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0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS
4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts
9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first
13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists
16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior
21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution
27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools
35:19 The redlining debate
40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct
44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb”
46:38 What’s causing low police morale?
50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden
55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse today
Recorded March 30, 2024
Links and Readings
Keith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Glenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis
Glenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix
Glenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentary
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three”
Radley Balko’s response to Coleman Hughes
Alpha News
Rucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments”
John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism”
Equal Justice Initiative website


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Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn
4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself
10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”
18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment
24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI
34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?
43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’t
Recorded March 20, 2024
Links and Readings
Amy’s 2021 TGS appearance
Amy’s 2022 TGS appearance
The leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendations
Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles Murray
Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Amy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review



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0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West
3:32 John’s awards show allergy
6:41 The realness of American Fiction
14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision
21:56 The SATs are on their way back
23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.
26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?
38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness
41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?
46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?
51:08 Debating the presidential debates
Recorded March 16, 2024
Links and Readings
American Fiction trailer
Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure
Rustin trailer
Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”
John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994


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