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April 2026 Q&A

The Glenn Show·May 1, 2026·42:07

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Scott Dolan asks what our best path forward is after Trump. Aaron Cara presents a theory about Glenn and John's disagreement over Trump’s presidency. Michael Maloney asks what Glenn and John think of a recent study of deceptiveness and claims of consciousness by AI. Jason proposes an intriguing parallel between AI and the cotton gin. Yan Shen asks what, if anything, the Dune novels can teach us about the Trump era. And finally, BB asks how important Glenn and John think “technical expertise” is when commenting on issues of broad social concern.

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Glenn Loury

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Transcript

So how does Gavin Newsom put it, it's something of, I can't remember the phrase now exactly.

It's not an argument.

It's a fight.

There's a real difference trying to win an argument is one thing.

Trying to win a fight is another thing altogether.

You don't bring a fissaris to a fight.

So I think we're in for more incivility, again, this is my point about how Trump's personality

is not the, in, in all, and be all of an analytical frame.

I think it has consequences to be sure his personality is defects, is moral and intellectual,

administrative shortcomings, have consequences.

But I think it's a system that he's embedded in, which will respond and has been responding

and has a logic of its own that we can only try and perfectly understand.

But I don't think it's a rosier times or ahead of us, I think, quite the opposite.

And this is not allowing for the possibility of violence, of civil disorder, of stuff getting

out of hand and escalating.

So I'm not, I'm not at all optimistic about us getting to higher ground, me either.

April 2026 Q&A

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