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John McWhorter – A Very Bad Weekend

Episode length: 1h 2m

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0:00 The shooting at Brown University
8:09 The Hanukkah massacre at Bondi Beach
11:42 Ground News ad
13:34 Searching for a narrative in an information-thin environment
17:34 Is the pro-Palestine movement about “whiteness”?
23:26 Glenn: There’s more to Israel-Palestine than race
29:44 What does a representative American look like?
36:50 Trump’s inflammatory comments about the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer
42:40 Trump’s allegedly declining help
51:26 Why John won’t write a memoir

Recorded December 18, 2025

Links and Readings

John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

William Greider’s 1981 Atlantic article, “The Education of David Stockman”

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

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