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Here is a bit of a taste of the show:
In my long career as a theoretical economist at institutions like Harvard, Boston University, and Brown, I’ve engaged with America’s most pressing concerns about race and inequality in ways that reach out beyond the confines of the academy.
In the 1980s and 1990s, that meant giving public lectures and writing for premiere print publications like The New Republic, The Public Interest, Commentary, and The Atlantic.
In the 2000s, I began podcasting and videocasting with The Glenn Show on the Bloggingheads.tv platform, where I struck up a popular ongoing dialogue with the linguist and social critic John McWhorter.
This newsletter supports the two mediums—writing and conversation—in which I’ve worked most productively over the last two decades. It can be difficult to find a traditional home for my commentary.
Though I often describe myself as a conservative, my views don’t map neatly onto any one ideological paradigm. My career has seen me shift to the right and the left. I’ve taken up issues as seemingly disparate as mass incarceration, the ailing state of the black family, and the failures of both progressivism and conservatism.
My mind, heart, and conscience dictate what I say, and that can make it difficult to find a home. So I’ve made one here.
What You’ll Get
The Glenn Show consists of weekly conversations with a range of writers, journalists, social scientists, and activists, many of whom have a hard time getting their voices heard on mainstream outlets.
Every two weeks, I post the latest installment of my ongoing conversation with John McWhorter where we discuss race and politics.
I regularly post original writing that expands on themes introduced in the podcast, along with transcripts of recent speeches, clips from the show, and gems from the archive.
Why You Should Become a Subscriber
I make episodes of The Glenn Show and a couple of posts a week available at no cost to everyone who signs up for the newsletter.
If you become a paying subscriber, you’ll get the episode early—on Mondays instead of Fridays—along with commenting privileges.
Once a month, John and I also record a Q&A episode—subscribers can submit questions, and only subscribers get access to the episodes.
I also regularly post a variety of subscriber-only content, including post-show mini-episodes, bonus episodes of The Glenn Show, guest essays, and whatever else my team and I cook up.
Every paid subscriber also gets the preface and the first chapter of my memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, in text (PDF, epub) and audio (read by yours truly).
Why I need your support
I prize my intellectual independence above all things. This newsletter and The Glenn Show allow me to speak my mind and talk about ideas that have no place in mainstream outlets. I’ve spent my entire career pushing back against the suffocating expectations of what a black intellectual is “supposed to think.” Now, here, I can breathe freely.
But I need your help. Putting out a weekly show, multiple posts, and other long-term features that meet my and my team’s high standards requires resources. This newsletter and its staff are funded solely by its subscribers. So if you like what you see here and you want more, I would be so grateful if you would consider becoming a subscriber.
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