John McWhorter – Is Ta-Nehisi Coates Right about Israeli Apartheid?

1:12 The Vance-Walz debate

4:28 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book is brilliant

13:16 John and Coates’s ancient beef

15:31 Coates’s “blistering” critique of Zionism

18:22 Ground News ad

20:39 Do you have to solve the problem of “apartheid” in order to criticize it?

33:10 Glenn’s reappraisal of Coates (and John’s bemusement)

34:53 ACTA ad 36:39 Will the race card play for Eric Adams?

42:31 What has Eric Adams accomplished?

43:57 Why John defends Amy Wax

49:17 Glenn: Amy Wax gets to have her opinion

Recorded October 5, 2024

Links and Readings

The Vance-Walz VP debate

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Coleman Hughes’s Free Press review of The Message

Coates’s book, Between the World and Me

Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”

Glenn and John’s in-person TGS episode

Andrew Yang’s Newsweek piece, “I Ran against Eric Adams. I Saw This Coming.”

John’s NYT piece, “She Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.”

Amy Wax’s December 2021 TGS appearance

Wax’s August 2022 TGS appearance

Wax’s March 2024 TGS appearance

Richard Sander’s Stanford Law Review article, “A Systematic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools”

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