Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show

Why Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community ... The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events ... John: Administrators at St. Olaf should be ashamed of themselvesc ... Are right-wing campaigns against openly trans and nonbinary elementary school teachers the equivalent of left-wing cancel culture? ... What are the social determinants of gender identity in young people? ... Glenn’s awesome house ... A festschrift for Glenn ... Can we separate jurisprudence from the lived consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade? ... Do the ends now justify the means in American politics? ...

Acknowledging the black middle class ... How the Democratic Party works against progressives ... Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters ... Should we increase taxes on the very rich in order to fund the social safety net? ... Briahna makes the case for Medicare for All ... Should we cancel student debt? ... The left-right alliance over intervention in Ukraine ...

Greg’s work with the Jazz Leadership Project ... How does a “black” art form operate within a corporate environment? ... What’s left of the legacy of Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Stanley Crouc ... Black culture after the postmodern turn ... Greg’s work with the Institute for Cultural Evolution ... Greg’s critique of Black Lives Matter ... Rooted cosmopolitanism and the “Faustian bargain” of whiteness ... Greg’s very accomplished daughter ...

What is Glenn’s goal as a public intellectual? ... Glenn has his critique of affirmative action … ... … but is articulating the critique enough? ... Glenn: My raison d’être is to give voice to my contempt for the failures of my people ... Stephanie: At a certain point, you’re not describing reality, you’re influencing it ... The case for integralism ... “Evolution is beautiful, but it’s not pretty” ... Glenn’s critique of Stephanie’s “promiscuous pragmatic pluralism” ... A preliminary look into the married life of the Lourys ...

The NYT commemorates the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death ... What really happened between Martin and George Zimmerman? ... How John’s relationship with The Root frayed ... Learning from the O.J. Simpson case ... Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on the big and small screen ... Where are the consequences for those who get it wrong? ... Remembering Scott Joplin ...

Some unspeakable truths ... Are comics now afraid to speak their minds onstage? ... The difference between telling the truth and getting a laugh ... Can jokes actually do harm? ... Nikki Jax on comedy and trans issues ... Who actually “cancels” comics, audiences or corporations? ... Sam Jay on artistic freedom and mob mentality ... Q&A: I’m worried people won’t understand that my one-woman show is satire. What should I do? ... Q&A: Does comedy have real power or is it ‘just jokes’? ... Q&A: Do comics sometimes inadvertently reinforce wrongheaded points of view? ... Q&A: Why are Ivy Leaguers so unfunny? ... Q&A: Are college campuses inhospitable environments for comedy? ... Q&A: What got Roland suspended at Harvard? ... Q&A: Does the general public need social media training? ... Q&A: Is there a way to stop corporations from folding to social media pressure campaigns? ...

The principle that race shouldn’t matter and the fact that it does ... The high stakes of affirmative action ... In defense of Charles Murray ... Are there facts we’re better off not knowing? ... When does affirmative action make sense and when is it counterproductive? ... Is belief in God irrational? ... Suffering and the illusion of self ... Finding meaning in secular community ...

Matt’s brief career as a professional basketball player in Mongolia ... What drove Putin to invade Ukraine? ... Are there limits to Putin’s power in Russia? ... Putting ourselves in Russia’s geopolitical shoes ... The appeal of Russian nationalism ... Did we learn anything from Iraq and Afghanistan? ... Did Russiagate obscure Americans’ ability to see Russia’s actions clearly? ... The value of public apologies ... Matt: Journalists are now in the narrative business ... The foreign policy language barrier ... Matt’s recommends some modern Russian writers ... Matt answers the most pressing question of our time: Celtics or Nets? ...

Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony ... Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US? ... How the war in Ukraine could increase nuclear proliferation ... Daniel: It’s absurd that people got so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment ... Does the US have “mass politics” anymore? If not, is that a bad thing? ... When does it pay to privatize? ... What’s so bad about utopianism? ... Is true meritocracy possible within a highly unequal society? ... The uses (and possible abuses) of game theory ...

Glenn contemplates exiting academia ... Why should Jeffrey Lieberman lose his jobs over a tacky tweet? ... The historical significance of the word “Negro” ... The revolt against “Latinx” ... Why Glenn doesn’t capitalize “black” ... Why does “blackness” take precedence? ... Glenn: Tenure without mandatory retirement can be a problem ... Will the US send troops to Ukraine? ...