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The Glenn Show Is Taking a Break

1 week ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

When I launched The Glenn Show 2.0 back in late 2021, I wanted to see if I could take the video podcast I’d been doing for years and turn it into a freestanding, financially sustainable operation. With Nikita Petrov developing the show’s creative vision and digital expansion and Mark Sussman helming the editorial operation—along with the able assistance of Lukas Sluzar, who keeps the show looking and sounding sharp—we’ve found a combination that works.
Race Ain't Over Yet

1 week ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

I welcome some of the necessary and predictable changes in approaches to race and identity the Trump administration is strong-arming universities into accepting. The overweening insistence on the progressive party line on race led to an attitude that condescended to black students while fostering in them an anachronistic sense of their own embattled status.
John McWhorter - A New Agenda for Higher Ed?

1 week ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

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A Good Faith Debate on Bad Faith

1 week ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

This post is free and available to the public. To receive early access to TGS episodes, an ad-free podcast feed, Q&As, and other exclusive content and benefits, click below. My most recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, in which I recount my dismissal from the Manhattan Institute, has apparently made the rounds.
The Crypto Revolution

2 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

The rise of cryptocurrency is one of the most startling, potentially disruptive, potentially revolutionary economic events of the last twenty-five years. But how does it actually work? In this clip, former CIA analyst and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security Yaya Fanusie takes me through the basics. This is a clip from an episode that went out to full subscribers earlier this week.
Q&A: A Trump-Endorsed DEI Program

2 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

Back in November of last year, after months of declaring my dissatisfaction with both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, I confessed that I was excited about Trump’s win. The Democratic establishment got a dose of reality, as I saw it. I shared some of Trump’s priorities—like border security and DEI—and I was looking forward to seeing him shake things up. That appears to be one of those statements I’ll have to defend or explain every so often, possibly forever. So be it.
Yaya Fanusie - The Challenges of Crypto Security

2 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

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May 2025 Q&A

3 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

It’s Q&A time once more. If you’ve got questions for John McWhorter and I, comment below and we’ll pick a few to address in our next session. Of course, that option, and the Q&A episodes themselves, are only available to full subscribers. So if you’d like to become one, click below and get started. The Glenn Show is almost entirely funded with the support of its subscribers—we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you.
Literary Indulgences of the Antiracists

3 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

The popularity of writers like Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones—whose signature works promote ahistorical and intellectually specious arguments about race and American history—raises an important question: Why have they been so successful? And now that the racial discourse seems to be shifting, what comes next? John McWhorter, Jason Riley, and I debate these questions in this clip from our latest conversation. This is a clip from an episode that went out to full subscribers earlier this week.
Affirmative Action: Back to the Future

3 weeks ago | glennloury.substack.com | Glenn Loury

The Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action has been in effect for almost two years now, and we’re still asking the big question: what’s next? Sandra Day O’Connor, in her 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger opinion, argued that affirmative action ought to be kept on the books, but not forever.