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Glenn and John Live at Brown University | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter | The Glenn Show
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17mo ago
May 2, 2025
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1h 27m
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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. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409 Glenn Loury (Brown University, Self-Censorship), John McWhorter (Columbia, New York Times, Lexicon Valley), and Wendy Schiller (Watson Institute, Brown University). Recorded April 22, 2025.
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31Prefatory remarks
- 4:15Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme
- 9:06Ground News ad
- 11:01Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought?
- 18:47John McWhorter has entered the building
- 20:25How did higher ed lose the general public’s support?
- 23:05The university’s role in public discourse
- 26:26Was affirmative action a success or a failure?
- 31:36The partisan balance in education funding
- 42:21The costs and benefits of tenure
- 50:09Can education preserve democracy if students aren’t doing the reading?
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