John McWhorter – The Path Not Taken for Black Activism

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0:00 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

0:45 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

6:50 Glenn the patriarch

10:35 John Lewis’s legacy

15:48 Ground News ad

17:49 From John Lewis to Stokely Carmichael to Jesse Jackson to BLM

25:21 To isolate or to integrate?

27:41 What black activism could have been

32:02 John: The Black Panthers accomplished nothing

40:04 ACTA ad

42:18 James Baldwin’s “nutty” late work

44:45 James Q. Wilson’s prescient attitude toward Glenn’s leftward shift

52:43 The “conservative” absence at the National Museum of African American History

55:11 John’s investigation of contemporary Yiddish speakers

Recorded December 1, 2024

Links and Readings

David Greenberg’s book, John Lewis: A Life

Barbara Fields and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton’s book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

Trailer for Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro

James Baldwin’s book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values

John DiIulio Jr.’s review of Late Admissions in the Claremont Review of Books

John’s NYT column, “Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That’s Thrillingly Alive”

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