Lara’s critique of Title IX adjudications … Why Lara defended a college student accused of rape … Lara’s cross-examination of the accuser … The trouble with “Believe Women” … What the Trump Administration got right about Title IX … Why Lara supports Amy Wax’s freedom of speech … Does Glenn still feel marginalized? … Finding common ground amidst political tribalism … Lara’s work on racial disparities in sexual assault cases …

Glenn’s impact on Reihan … How Reihan became president of the Manhattan Institute … What is the Manhattan Institute’s relationship to Eric Adams’s administration? … The value of dissenters … Reihan: We’ve underinvested in our criminal justice system … What constitutes a quality high school education? … Michael Bloomberg’s education initiatives … Reihan’s concerns about racial reification … The uses and abuses of racial identity …

A special announcement from Glenn … Richard’s journey from quiet Marxist to public intellectual … Why Youngstown, Ohio was left behind … Richard: Capitalist ownership is inherently anti-democratic … Richard’s critique of Hayekian libertarianism … Pecuniary externalities vs. objective externalities … Socialism’s historical track record … Employees as stakeholders … The rise of the right in the wake of the New Deal and WWII … The Glenn Show’s new partnership with the Manhattan Institute …

Glenn and Steph’s jam session … Steph’s adventures in the multiverse … The parallels between black art and physics … The centrality of self-reference in Steph’s work … Is there a racial dimension to how excellence reveals itself in students? … How Steph learned to level up … Steph’s new book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics … Steph’s admiration for prior generations of Jewish physicists … How Glenn and Steph navigate stigma … What is the Higgs boson? …

John: Republicans’ elevation of Herschel Walker is an insult … If Walker is so inept, why does he have so much support? … Where’s the outrage over racist attacks on Clarence Thomas? … Thomas’s historical significance … The Clarence Thomas (and Al Sharpton) we don’t see … Are Amy Wax’s views beyond the pale? … John: “Amy should know better” … Amy Wax’s return to The Glenn Show …

Why do race and gender trump socioeconomics in affirmative action considerations? … Are Glenn and John making a difference in the race debate? … The argument for charter schools … Glenn: Nobody really believes that racism is the cause of racial disparities in crime … The difficulty of having an honest conversation about race and crime … Seizing the possibilities of our freedom … John: The race debate is about the cops … The Jon Laster Challenge … Sherrod talks to the crowd … Why do cops become cops? … Jon: Money is the biggest problem in black communities … Can poverty account for violence in black communities? … Q&A: Do we need more black police? … Q&A: Have Glenn and John gotten credit for highlighting The Trayvon Hoax? … Q&A: John clarifies his position on the Georgia voting law …

Nikita asks: Who are “my people”? … How much responsibility do we bear for the actions of our governments? … The problem of racial affiliation … The use and abuse of group identity … Is Glenn “authentically black”? … The incomplete project of emancipation … Why was Russia’s period of true democracy so brief? … Democracy and “the Russian soul” … Can we compare antiwar Americans and antiwar Russians? … Glenn: Why would the US risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine? … The US’s involvement in drafting Russia’s constitution …

John reports on his rustic Catskills bungalow … Parents protest Princeton public schools “dumbing down” their math curriculum … How much educational transparency is owed to parents? … How many DEI initiatives and administrators do we actually need? … John: I don’t think we can fix what’s broken in DEI … Glenn’s theory of social capital may explain (but does not excuse) some disparities … Cultures of achievement vs. disincentive effects of affirmative action … What do we know about what kids know about the world? … Glenn offers some reason for hope from John Tomasi …

Glenn asks: Is Jon’s heterodoxy insufficiently pugilistic? … Jon’s theory of social media-driven “structural stupidity” … Do the Republican Party’s structural flaws negate its policies? … The rise of social media and the disappearance of free play for kids … Race, trans issues, and the future of the country … Why are economists uniquely heterodox thinkers in the academy? … What fills the “God-shaped hole” in the hearts of putatively secular Americans? …

Race and economics in the UK … How long will the concerns of native-born Black Americans drive the race conversation? … The shaky “people of color” coalition … Trying to account for racial disparities in the commission of violent crime … Reclaiming moral agency from white people … The Old Parkland conference … John’s forthcoming lectures on the alphabet … Glenn’s critique of John’s school shooting column …

How scientific are the social sciences? … Glenn defends the reliability of economic predictions … The strengths and weaknesses of “natural experiments” … How much does culture affect economic behavior? … New insights from behavioral economics … Dan: We trust the social sciences too much …