Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/glennshow 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 The many, many books of David Kaiser 3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard 9:16 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard 13:10 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism 15:42 Intellectuals in the wild 17:35 How James Bryant Conant built the modern Harvard … 10:40 … and how it was broken 21:59 Glenn’s previous conversation with Omer Bartov 27:19 Why David thinks the Gaza War falls short of genocide but maybe not ethnic cleansing 28:58 What Claudine Gay could (and maybe should) have said at her congressional hearing 30:58 Why David thinks originalists will have a problem rejecting attempts to remove Trump from electoral ballots 35:45 David: Mitch McConnell should have impeached Trump when he had the chance 39:14 David’s new book, States of the Union 44:10 Have state of the union addresses always been as boring as they are now? 49:02 Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, and their legacies 1:00:44 Why Obama didn’t propose a New New Deal after the 2008 financial crisis 1:04:08 Biden’s silence Glenn Loury and David Kaiser (US Naval War College, States of the Union). Recorded January 10, 2024.