Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com This episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek's podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/join Order Glenn's new book, Self-Censorship , here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww Video Links 0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship 4:11 Black and conservative in Reagan’s America 8:30 The social science hall of fame 12:45 Jews, assimilation, and the quantitative revolution 17:56 Human universalism vs. ethno-national particularity 21:42 Historicizing “the Jew” 23:47 Danny: Larry Summers can’t see outside his own neoliberal paradigm 27:50 Are we entering a period of, as Marx wrote, “mutual ruin”? 30:46 Is capitalism leading us toward nuclear war? 37:18 What the Manhattan Institute incident taught Glenn about his own book 42:02 Glenn: “I’m rethinking everything” 46:40 Is the right reverting to a pre-New Deal political paradigm? 51:37 Is Israel a reversion to an Early Modern model of nation-building? 58:07 American Jews’s role in Israel’s creation and perpetuation 1:03:04 Why Glenn previously censored himself on Gaza 1:09:30 Glenn: So far, I’m disappointed in Trump Recorded August 6, 2025 Links and Readings Danny and Derek’s podcast, American Prestige Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity Corey Robin’s book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Glenn’s City Journal essay, “Clarence Thomas and Me” Seth Schwartz’s book, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhamad Omar El Akkad’s book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Glenn’s post, “I Was Fired by the Manhattan Institute. Here’s Why.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch’s book, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire Avi Shlaim’s book, Genocide in Gaza: Israel, Hamas, and the Long War on Palestine Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning Glenn’s conversation with Beinart This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe
