Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Glenn's latest book, Self-Censorship, here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxww Subscribe to Bob's Nonzero Newsletter at https://nonzero.org 0:00 A message from Glenn 1:34 How this conversation came to be 2:59 What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing 8:56 Who (or what) is driving our polarization? 17:36 Cognitive empathy for MAGA 25:24 Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action 45:04 Are we re-running the 1960s? 51:50 Glenn's latest book, Self-Censorship 54:11 Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn 1:04:02 Glenn on Gaza: “I can’t bear it.” 1:17:27 “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints 1:26:58 Has Trump’s anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech? 1:36:58 A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss 1:46:44 Are Israel’s defenders hurting their cause? 1:52:14 Glenn’s next big project Glenn Loury (Brown University, Hoover Institution, Self-Censorship) and Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True). Recorded September 15, 2025.