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2:19 John apologizes for his previous statement about Trump and assassination, and Glenn reaffirms their friendship
7:21 Glenn: “We literally dodged a bullet”
9:09 John: Going MAGA is taking the easy political route
11:06 Glenn: There are good reasons to support some of Trump’s policies, if not his rhetoric
18:57 Does the 2024 election have a “summer of 2020” vibe?
23:38 Ground News ad
25:58 The fantasy Kamala Harris / Corey Booker ticket
33:27 Is “Make America Nice Again” a compelling campaign message?
38:22 Is “Trump is a threat to democracy” a lexically inept slogan?
45:53 It’s time for Biden to step down
49:50 John: “I'm honestly glad the assassin missed”
54:49 Do Glenn and John need couples counseling?
Recorded July 20, 2024
Links and Readings
Andrew Napolitano’s conversation with John Mearsheimer
Andrew Napolitano conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
Evan Vucci’s iconic post-assassination attempt photo of Trump and Secret Service agents
John’s NYT column, “Why Are Democrats Speaking to America in Ancient Greek?”
George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language”
Larry Kotlikoff’s Substack post, “Biden Must Step Aside—This Week!”
Yascha Mounk’s Substack, Persuasion
Glenn’s conversation with Yasha Mounk


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Glenn and the team discuss the use of independent podcasts as platforms for world leaders and the use and misuse of AI translations and voice simulations.

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2:29 Have we already forgotten the horror of October 7?
9:22 Ben: We can’t ignore the loss of innocent life in Gaza
13:58 “From the river to the sea” and “all lives matter”
22:00 Celebrating the deaths of Israelis
26:31 Drawing the line at BDS
33:05 Glenn: If you want free speech, prepare to be uncomfortable
37:44 Columbia University administrators put on leave after allegedly antisemitic text messages
41:41 How Glenn discovered Benjamin’s work
47:40 The social meaning of race
51:01 The invitation to empathy in Late Admissions
59:02 Benjamin’s work with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Recorded July 10, 2024
Links and Readings
Benjamin’s book, Juror’s Stories of Death: How America’s Death Penalty Invests in Inequality
Benjamin’s book, Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
Benjamin’s book, Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Erving Goffman’s book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Erving Goffman’s book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Robert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Glenn’s conversation with his son, Glenn Loury II
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Student


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1:18 John: Biden probably should not be running for president
7:47 Who’s running the country?
11:17 Presidential b******t
13:35 Ground News ad
15:56 Is Kamala up to the big job?
22:44 Kamala’s questionable climb to the top
27:53 The NYT Editorial Board’s surprising call for Biden to drop out
33:50 Trump at Gettysburg
35:45 Trump’s victory is now more probable. But is it more defensible?
40:42 Interrogating the “elitist backlash” interpretation of Trumpism
45:43 How should Dems proceed in a post-Biden election?Recorded July 4, 2024
Links and Readings
Full video of the Trump-Biden debate
Harry G. Frankfurter’s book, On B******t
Clip from Adam McKay’s film, Vice
Kamala Harris attacks Biden during a 2019 primary debate
Kamala Harris defends Biden’s recent debate performance
NYT Editorial Board calls on Biden to leave the race
Jill Biden’s Vogue cover


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0:00 Intro
1:28 Biden’s abysmal debate performance
5:01 Billionaire survivalists
12:53 So you made it to your luxury bunker. Now what?
16:22 The postapocalyptic war of all against all
21:29 Is the very existence of billionaires the real doomsday scenario?
26:20 The doomsday tax
32:24 Will the bunker dwellers have a reason to live?
40:39 The problem of government after nuclear holocaust
46:08 The literal bunker mentality
52:08 Was Mark responsible for Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall? Who can say for sure?
Recorded June 28, 2024
Links and Readings
Evan Osnos’s 2017 New Yorker piece, “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich”
Douglas Rushkoff’s book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Douglas Rushkoff’s Guardian piece, “The Super-Rich ‘Preppers’ Planning to Save Themselves from the Apocalypse”
Ingrid Schmidt’s Hollywood Reporter piece, “Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers with Fiery Moats and Water Cannons”
Andre Mayer’s CBC News piece, “From Luxury Bunkers to Tactical Vehicles, the Ultra-Rich Are Preparing for the Big One”
Cixin Liu’s trilogy of sci-fi novels, The Three Body Problem
Everybody Loves Raymond complete series DVD box set
Louis van Gasteren’s documentary, Now Do You Get Why I Am Crying?
Paul Celan’s Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner
Tadeusz Borowski’s book, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman
Glenn, Nikita, and Mark’s previous conversation, “The Ethics of Giving in the Very Long Term”


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0:00 Great writing is “a marriage of life and honesty”
3:20 Glenn: I am my book’s primary audience
8:00 Glenn the Rationalist vs Glenn the Believer
18:00 How much did Glenn’s socio-economic status affect his sense of black belonging?
24:26 The radical rhetoric of privileged African Americans
29:38 Against reparations
33:57 A raised fist, but not a hand out
40:27 Colorblindness in theory and practice
50:11 Is race orthodoxy the first step on the road to totalitarianism?
1:03:01 Self-reliance and individualism
Recorded June 26, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Jennifer and Winkfield’s book, Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race
Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins’s book, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party
Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker’s cookbook, Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”
Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Sheena Michele Mason’s forthcoming book, The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Winkfield and Jennifer’s conversation with Angel Eduardo
Free Black Thought
Václav Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”


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