John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered

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0:00 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue?

7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John

17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin?

19:55 Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?

25:41 Hughes’s new book, The End of Race Politics

28:26 The problem with colorblindness

36:30 The interrelatedness of “black culture” and “American culture”

43:52 John: No one’s going to be excited about a Biden-Harris ticket this time around

52:59 Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

Recorded February 11, 2024

Links and Readings

John’s NYT piece, “No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘The Worst’”

Glenn and John’s conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis

Glenn and John’s conversation with Liz Collin and JC Chaix

Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd”

Coleman Hughes’s Free Press piece, “What Really Happened to George Floyd”

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

The trailer for Rustin

Glenn’s 2003 NYT oped, “Affirmative Action—and Reaction; Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility”

A clip from Coleman Hughes’s most recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

Ross Douthat’s NYT piece, “The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.”

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin

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