Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s effect on the racial dynamics of the theater 30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art” 40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis 47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures 1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability 1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020 1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit? 1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker John McWhorter (Columbia, New York Times, Lexicon Valley) and Clifton Duncan (Becoming Thomas Sowell). Recorded April 13, 2024.