John McWhorter – Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the Right?

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Happy 60th, John! 2:20 2020 in hindsight 12:05 Ground News ad 14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window? 18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right? 29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk 34:14 Glenn’s new book idea 41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Joy Reid 48:05 The purging of the woke remnant 51:33 The responsibilities of the black intellectual 58:27 Glenn: There is meaning in blacknessRecorded October 6, 2025Links and ReadingsGlenn and John’s first discussion of George Floyd, from May 2020Pete Hegseth’s speech before US military leadershipThe Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Atlantic essay, “The Other Martyr”Glenn’s October 3rd livestream, with Nikita Petrov and Robert Patton-SpruillEzra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s NYT conversation following the assassination of Charlie KirkCoates’s 2015 Atlantic essay, “Letter to My Son”Glenn’s recent conversation with Jason Riley on the life and work of Thomas Sowell This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe