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September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025

•Episode length: 1h 55m

Robert Wright – Free Speech after Gaza & Charlie Kirk

Episode length: 1h 55m

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Normally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast, so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full subscriber, consider becoming one by going here. We at The Glenn Show are almost entirely subscriber supported. We need your help to keep the show going. So if you’re already a paying subscriber, thank you for making The Glenn Show possible.

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0:00 A message from Glenn

1:34 How this conversation came to be

2:59 What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing

8:56 Who (or what) is driving our polarization?

17:36 Cognitive empathy for MAGA

25:24 Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action

45:04 Are we re-running the 1960s?

51:50 Glenn’s latest book, Self-Censorship

54:11 Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn

1:04:02 Glenn on Gaza: “I can’t bear it.”

1:17:27 “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints

1:26:58 Has Trump’s anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech?

1:36:58 A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss

1:46:44 Are Israel’s defenders hurting their cause?

1:52:14 Glenn’s next big project

Recorded September 15, 2025

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