Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” … Affirmative action in spirit and practice … Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? … The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action … Re-weighting and funding the admissions process … How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? … Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? … Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity … Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati …

Biden’s new DEI initiatives … The disparate uses of disparate impact … Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality … The problem with claims that education is resegregating … Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? … Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education … Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans … Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy …

Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? … What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John … How John makes the sausage at the New York Times … John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry … Is wokeness on the wane? … What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain … A Democrat by any other name … John makes a wild prediction about Trump …

Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump … Why should black people support Trump? … Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election … Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? … The redefinition of white supremacy … Deracializing the crime debate … Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World … Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another … Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson … What affirmative action did right …

A sixteen-year-long conversation … Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era … The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization … Glenn pulls rank … Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute … Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? …

Haim’s history with The Glenn Show … How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine … The legionnaire’s lingua franca … Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine … A pen in one hand and a gun in the other … Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected … Is the two-state solution dead? …

The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness … Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? … Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems … How Ian experienced his own cancelation … America’s exportation of wokeness … Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? … John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives …

How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed … Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced … Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? … The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework … Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? … Why so little outrage over the SCOTUS affirmative action decision? … When students internalize artificial trauma narratives … America can’t economically decouple itself from China. Will anti-China rhetoric wane? … What will and won’t change in the wake of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard … Isn’t there some value to diversity in education? …

Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case … Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? … Why Peter got interested in affirmative action … Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it … Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions … The brilliance of Roland Fryer … Campus diversity after affirmative action …

How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens … Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment … Why Matt thinks Cornel West’s Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed … What’s worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? … Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin” … Was affirmative action ever necessary? … Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchens’s universalism … Hitchens’s “fearless liberalism” …

John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action … Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment? … Why are we so focused on elite institutions? … John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences” … “You’re pulling the ladder up behind you” is an invalid critique … John: The fact that racism exists does not justify changing standards … Why Roland Fryer thinks we should put our money where our mouth is on race and education … Will the post-Students for Fair Admissions future turn into a Hardship Olympics? …

The problem with scientific consensus … Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” … Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs … Persuading science skeptics … How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again? … Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely … Are some ideas too dangerous to test? … Jay: Fauci’s blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him …

Why Cornel is running for president … How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home … Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters … Is there tension between Cornel’s commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class? … The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism … Might Cornel inadvertently hand the election to the Republicans? … Cornel: Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are wrong, but they’re sincere … Why Cornel thinks the US is partially culpable for the Ukraine War … Should Palestinians recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel? … Cornel’s ideas about the US border …

Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled … The fragility of liberal arts education … Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom … Is there a future for free inquiry? … John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action … Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism? … The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy …

Inside the mind of a crack columnist … The blowback from Norman Finkelstein’s TGS appearance … Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? … How did MLK become MLK? … What’s in a name when that name is “Woodrow Wilson”? … Glenn: “Clarence Thomas’s name should be on public school buildings” …

Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism … Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory … Charles: We are the 97%! … How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history … What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say? … What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history? … Sexuality’s ever-shifting Overton window … Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling … Expanding the canon of historic black figures …

John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” … How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields … Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … … … but the New York subway is getting scary … Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” … A possible left-wing objection to reparations … Glenn goes ham on reparations …

Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? … Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz … Is Israel an apartheid state? … Identifying with Paul Robeson … Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! … Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam” … What’s become of Angela Davis? … Cornel West’s chosen path … Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick” … The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama … South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics … Would Bernie have won in 2016? …

* This episode of The Glenn Show was taken down by YouTube on grounds that it constitutes “hate speech.” Give a listen and decide for yourself.

Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism … Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought … The “mysticism” of woke thinking … Learning from Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations … John breaks his silence on transgender issues … The political consequences of subjectivism … Why Mark thinks transgender people are mentally disordered … What does the T have to do with the LGB? … Mark: Transgender people deserve respect … Distinguishing between strategy and reality …

The gigification of academia … Is education just another commodity? … What do historians do? … Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel … The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university … Using (and getting used by) new technology … An alternate history of global economic development … The end of the American century … Daniel’s critique of US support for Ukraine …