Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Go to https://ground.news/glennshow to spot media bias and become a smarter news consumer. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month. 1:22 The Coates debate continues 3:18 John: Coates is a beautiful writer, but … 5:44 John: … The Message is suffused with incuriosity and simplistic thinking 13:45 Glenn: Coates is talking about humanism and power, not race 18:11 Ground News ad 20:25 Is it “all about whitey”? 22:11 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this book. What am I doing? 27:40 What kind of historical imagination is at work in The Message? 34:11 Moral clarity or abdication of responsibility? 36:30 Pro-Palestinian writers John considers acceptable 41:54 The next entries in Glenn and John’s book club 42:04 Coates’s now notorious interview on CBS Mornings 48:45 What is the black intellectual’s role today? 52:16 The counterexample of South Africa Glenn Loury (Brown University, Manhattan Institute, Late Admissions) and John McWhorter (Columbia, New York Times, Lexicon Valley). Recorded October 19, 2024.