John McWhorter – The Wake of the "Red Wave"

0:00 Glenn’s culinary dilemma

3:31 Why the Republican Party depresses John

8:14 What’s the difference between Herschel Walker and John Fetterman?

13:12 Glenn’s argument for voting Republican

30:01 Woke theater’s “melodramatic agitprop”

43:10 Kanye, Kyrie, and the Jews

54:00 What’s “systemic,” “structural,” or “institutional” about racism?

Recorded on November 13, 2022

Links and Readings

John’s NYT column, “Racism and Theater, Then and Now”

Glenn and John’s conversation with orchestra conductor Don Baton

Wilson Jeremiah Moses’s book, Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History

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