Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative … Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) … A ringing endorsement from John … What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? … Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” … What would King say to Claudine Gay? … King’s radicalism … John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist … The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College … How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal … Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard” … How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up … John’s upcoming cabaret show …

Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery … What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? … Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust … The problems of national security and public health … Are public employee unions constitutional? … Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” … Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too … Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case? …

Tabia’s early career as a teacher … Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director … The antisemitism problem at De Anza … The inescapable BIPOC binary … From disagreement to deplatforming … Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty … How attempts to silence Tabia backfired … Tabia’s broad vision of diversity … Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee …

A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions … John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death … The price of a “poetic truth” … Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? … Glenn: George Floyd was no hero … The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct … Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? … Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America? …

Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? … Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought … Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee … Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec … How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community … Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college … What is rhetoric, anyway? …

The state of campus speech after 10/7 … Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? … “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas … Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics … The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams … The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” … The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding … If not liberalism, then what? … Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart …

A quick announcement … What led Yascha to write about identity … An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” … What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? … From postmodernism to post-civil rights … The three key claims of identity synthesis … What led up to the summer of 2020? … The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo … Yascha’s defense of universalism …

Persia at the turn of the twentieth century … Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions … Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? … How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution … How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution … The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran … The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran … Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture … The internal and external pressures on Iran … The amorality of foreign policy …

Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist … Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism … There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. … Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic … John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict … Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? … Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? … Glenn and John’s responsibilities as teachers … What’s next on TGS …

Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational … How small states deal with world powers … If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? … John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just … The risk of escalation … Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West … Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? … Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? … American Russophobia didn’t cause the war, but it’s not helping … John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal … The foreign policy establishment’s grip on both Democrats and Republicans …

Introduction by Greg Burnep … What does affirmative action mean in 2023? … Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” … Diversity’s double-talk … Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? … Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems … Affirmative action is an elite problem … Affirmative action as an insurance policy … The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries … Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it’s time to stop … Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action? … Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions? … Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education? … Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university? … Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action? …

What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? … Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist … CRT’s racial power-grab … Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? … Disguising failure as victimology … Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing … The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal … John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” … Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine … The shame of the Kendi scandal …

How Sabby got her start on YouTube … What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? … Is the US sliding into fascism? … The tension between race and class on the left … Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men … The military-industrial complex and climate change … Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops … Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration … Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another … Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine” … How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests …

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 …