Sitemap - 2023 - Glenn Loury

The Nazis Are Staying on Substack. Should I?

Q&A: Book Recommendations from Glenn and John

Q&A: Is It Woke to Be Pro-Hamas?

Philip Howard – Getting Unions Out of Government

A Holiday Message from Glenn

Three Years Later, Minneapolis Is Still Not OK

December 2023 Q&A

Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - UNRESTRICTED

What Derek Chauvin's Trial Didn't Show Us

John McWhorter, Liz Collin & JC Chaix – Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd

What Happened to the Black-Jewish Alliance?

DEI Has an Antisemitism Problem

Black DEI Director Fired for β€œWhitesplaining”

Tabia Lee – An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out

Gaza and Hiroshima

Who's To Blame for the George Floyd Moral Panic?

November 2023 Q&A

Derek Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd

John McWhorter – The Truth about George Floyd's Death

What Is Campus Life Like for a Jewish Zionist Student?

How Democrats Infantilize Black Voters

A Peek Behind the DEI Curtain

Erec Smith – Free Black Thought

Q&A: Has "Narrative" Replaced "Truth"?

Are Jewish Students in Danger?

John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner & Tyler Austin Harper – The Gaza War and the Crisis of Liberalism

Robert Wright – The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists (Bonus Episode)

Blacks, Jews, and Bias

November 2023 Q&A

Between Race Abolition and Racial Essentialism

Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap

The Path to Equality

How Iran Became a Theocracy

October 2023 Q&A

Iran's Crisis of Legitimacy

Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia

"Defining Deviancy Down" at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

Are Pro-Hamas Statements a Fireable Offense?

When the Smoke Clears in Gaza

October 2023 Q&A

John McWhorter – Thinking Through the Gaza War

Q&A: Black Fragility

Why the US Won't Back Down in Ukraine

Is It Only a Matter of Time for Ukraine?

John Mearsheimer – America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine

Reviving the Spirit of Free Inquiry

Why Is TED Afraid of Coleman Hughes?

What's at Stake in Israel?

John McWhorter & Coleman Hughes – The Colorblindness Controversy and Israel-Hamas

Ibram Kendi's Crusade against the Enlightenment

Affirmative Exception

September 2023 Q&A

Have Elite Universities Earned Our Trust?

Randall Kennedy & Renu Mukherjee – A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross

Black Patriotism Redux

Ibram X. Kendi's "Poisonous" Racial Ideology

Who's Responsible for the Ibram X. Kendi Phenomenon?

John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal

Post-George Floyd, Pre-January 6

Trouble Brewing for Cornel West and the Left

Beware of Dog

Sabrina Salvati & LaJuan Loury – Dems Take Fire from the Left

The Two-Parent Privilege

Is the "Spirit" of Affirmative Action Dead?

A "Tragic" Stereotype

John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – How the Race Game Is Played

What Is Racial Equality?

September 2023 Q&A

Q&A: Do "Antiracists" Buy Their Own Hype?

Does Title IX Protect Trans People?

Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation

Q&A: What's Driving "Mob Actions" in Chicago?

Is Rap America's Poetry?

August 2023 Q&A

Faith in Democracy

John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?

How to Live a Meaningful Life

Is DEI Unconstitutional?

Setting the Record Straight on Deindustrialization

Election Deniers' Extraordinary Claims

Carol Swain – The Adversity of Diversity

In Defense of the Deindustrialization Narrative

Debating the Deindustrialization Narrative

Waiting for Obama

John McWhorter – Sixteen Years of "The Black Guys"

Is It Cool to Be Queer on Campus?

Q&A: Is It Time to End the War on Drugs?

A Writer Goes to War

August Q&A

Haim Shweky – An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front

The End of Racial Discrimination and the Beginning of National Self-Knowledge

Slaves Were More Than Mere Victims

July 2023 Q&A

The New Culture of Conformity

John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness

What Florida Is (and Isn't) Teaching Students about Slavery

How "Diversity" Caters to the Elite

The First Thing You Learn at Harvard

Jay Caspian Kang – Affirmative Elitism

What's Wrong with Respectability?

Are Legacy Admissions Next?

Giving Up the Bad Faith of Affirmative Action

John McWhorter and Peter Arcidiacono – The Economics of SFFA v. Harvard

David Kaiser on the Future of Higher Ed

Is It OK to "Speak as a Black Man"?

July Q&A

The Left Is in Trouble. Can Christopher Hitchens Save It?

Matt Johnson – The Lessons of Christopher Hitchens

While the Culture War Rages, America's Youth Struggles

The Hardship Olympics

June 2023 Q&A

Affirmative Action's Parasitic Elitism

John McWhorter – The End of Race-Based Affirmative Action

Did January 6 Justify Trump's Twitter Ban?

Do We Need a COVID Truth and Reconciliation Committee?

Historian David Kaiser on the Affirmative Action Decision

The High Tragedy of the Pandemic

Jay Bhattacharya – Rewriting the COVID Narrative

Race-Targeted Affirmative Action is Over. Where Do We Go from Here?

Is America Waging a Proxy War in Ukraine?

Can Cornel West Win in 2024?

Cornel West – The Presidential Aspirations of Cornel West

Systemic Racism at Brown?

Who Needs Affirmative Action? Not Middle-Class African Americans.

At the Front, Part Two

The Power of the N-Word

John McWhorter & Jonathan Rieder – Canceling "Culture in America"

Racial Preferences May End, but the Fight Will Continue

June Q&A

Putting a Stop to Inner-City Gun Violence

At the Front, Part One

"College for All" Isn't for Everyone

Robert Cherry – The State of the Black Family

"Linguistics No Longer Loves Me”

What Makes Norman Finkelstein So Controversial?

Giving Clarence Thomas His Due

John McWhorter – How Should We Memorialize the Past?

When Conversations with White Conservatives Go Wrong

May 2023 Q&A

A Florida Public School Teacher on Black History

Charles Love & Donique Rolle – Teaching Black History without CRT

The Left-Wing Case against Reparations

Reparations Won't Fix Anything

A New Comments Section Policy

The Jordan Neely Problem

John McWhorter – Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely

Nikita Petrov – How Substack Can Solve Online Censorship (Bonus Episode)

What Did Obama Stand For?

I Was Censored by YouTube

From "Black Reconstruction" to "Antiracist Baby"?

May Q&A

Norman Finkelstein – The "Triple Scam" of Wokeness

The Strength of Humility

A Glenn Loury Rantβ„’

Homage to Ukraine, Part Four

Defending Tucker Carlson

John McWhorter – What Made Omar?

Can Brandon Johnson Save Chicago?

Why Black Communities Need the Police

April Q&A

To Praise Cultural Appropriation, Not to Bury It

Heather Mac Donald – When Race Trumps Merit

Wokeism's Assault on the Enlightenment

I Feel, Therefore I Am – Repost

Real Time with Bill Maher

Homage to Ukraine, Part Three

The Manhattan Institute's Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner

Does "T" Belong with "LGB"?

John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt – I Feel, Therefore I Am

Diversity's Betrayal

What's Killing the History Profession?

Homage to Ukraine, Part Two

Should We Stop Arming Ukraine?

Daniel Bessner – The End of the American Century

Developing the Development Narrative

April Q&A

The Mainstreaming of Black Lives Matter

Sally Satel – The Ethics of Selling a Kidney (Bonus Episode)

Glenn and John Livestream

Two Paths for Black America: Barack Obama or Clarence Thomas

John McWhorter and Ian Rowe – Who Speaks for Black America?

Taking Scott Adams Seriously

Confronting "Hate Speech" with Free Speech

Homage to Ukraine, Part One

Can Free Speech Aid Minority Rights?

Jonathan Rauch – A Liberal Defense of Free Speech

The Price of Free Porn

Why Stanford Law Needs Conservatives

March Q&A

Who's Safeguarding Speech at Stanford Law?

David Sacks and Spencer Segal – Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law

Saving the Classical Canon

John Talks Real Time with Bill Maher

In Defense of the Defense of Ukraine

The Burden of Self-Knowledge

John McWhorter – From Equity to Equality

The Myth of "White Science"

Is Homework Racist?

Criminal Justice after Peak Woke

March Q&A

Can Science Benefit from More Diversity?

Sylvester Gates – Diversifying the Scientific Imagination

Whatever Happened to ... ?

Is It OK to Be Scott Adams?

Glenn and John Live in NYC

John McWhorter – The Private Side of Public Life

The Meaning of a B-

How to Talk to Children about Race

February Q&A

Breaking the Cycle of Human Stagnation

Oded Galor – The Journey of Humanity

What's the Point of Black History Month?

Do We Need Prisons?

When Anti-Racism Comes for the Anti-Racists

John McWhorter and Vincent Lloyd – Domination and Anti-Blackness

Back in the Firing Line

February Q&A

Do Black Abortions Matter Too?

Delano Squires – Black, Christian, and Conservative

When the "Racial Justice" Narrative Crumbles

January Q&A

The Spectacle of Mourning

John McWhorter & Peter Moskos – The Killing of Tyre Nichols

Goodbye to Race?

The Merits of Meritocracy

Ernesto Cortes – The Organizer Mindset

Life, Neoliberalism, and Everything

January Q&A

Is Another Harlem Renaissance Possible?

John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond

Maverick Redux

The False Promise of Net Zero Emissions

Steven Koonin – Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions

The Best of Glenn and John 2022

The False God of "Antiracism"

The Revolt against the Elites

Michael Sandel – The Tyranny of Merit