TGS Live: A Conversation with John McWhorter + Live Q&A

TOMORROW, Friday, October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT

Before you head out into the night for your Halloween parties, tricks, or treats, join me tomorrow for my weekly livestream. I’ll have the one and only John McWhorter with me for the full two hours. In the first half of the show, we’ll have one of our regular conversations, and for the second half we’ll be answering questions submitted by full subscribers for an on-air version of our monthly Q&A session. We may even have a few of the question-askers drop in to join the conversation. We’ll be working without a net—no edits or take-twos—so I’m not sure what exactly will happen. But I know it’s going to be fun! That’s tomorrow, Friday, October 31 at 1:00 PM EDT.

In the first half of the show, we’ll be debating whether Trump is defining our political era, whether “the end of race politics” (to borrow Coleman Hughes’s phrase) means “the end of race,” former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s disastrous book promo tour, and my recent visit to San Antonio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my friend Ernesto Cortes’s Communities Organized for Public Service operation. In the Q&A, we’ll address questions about Adolph Reed’s critique of race reductionism and disparitarian justice, AI and labor, the place of black conservatives in public institutions, college admissions standards, Christopher Caldwell’s idea of the Civil Rights Act as a “second constitution,” and more.

You can tune in tomorrow, October 31 at 1:00 PM EDT on Substack, YouTube, StreamYard, or my X page:

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