Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show

Glenn remembers Mark, who passed away on Sunday ... Glenn and Mark talk crime and punishment ... Mark: Few people in social services consider crime prevention to be part of their mission ... Glenn and Mark debate the merits of "stop and frisk" in NYC ... Mark reviews his research on crime prevention ... Why aren't Mark's methods politically popular? ... Glenn challenges Mark on the moral aspects of his theory of crime reduction ...

Affirmative action and the college admissions scandal ... Jock and Man at Yale ... What money can't (and can) buy ... Considering class-based affirmative action ... Does it matter that Trump is an immoral person? ... Is racism at the center of the border crisis? ... Whatever happened to the domestic neoconservatives? ... Why Republicans stopped caring about cities ... The GOP after Trump ...

Coleman’s essay, “Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap” ... Is America’s present-day wealth built on slavery? ... Coleman: People attribute too much causal power to racist policies ... How to quantify “black culture” ... Coleman: We should stop focusing on racial disparities ... Glenn: Social remedies should be implemented on individual, not racial, terms ...

John's next two books, a history of English and a book on profanity ... Who is hurt when we violate language taboos? ... Glenn on writing his memoir: "The truth hurts" ... Three key turning points in Glenn's life ... Glenn's break with the right (and his friends on the right) ... Do conservative intellectuals care about black people? ... Thinking about the black woman who doesn't make partner at her NYC law firm ...

Scott's book, First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas ... The influence of the Declaration of Independence on the Constitution ... Does Thomas want to invalidate the administrative state? ... Why Thomas cares about desegregation more than integration ... Does it matter what slave owners like Thomas Jefferson thought about liberty? ... Thurgood Marshall vs. Thomas on the Constitution ... Thomas's views on voting rights ... Jefferson, Lincoln, King, Thomas? ...

Michael's book on the Rockefeller drug laws, Black Silent Majority ... Critiquing Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow ... Adding a class critique to the discussion of race and crime ... Why Michael is torn over "respectability politics" ... Michael: People on both sides of the debate need to take poor black folk seriously ... Could black churches team up with Black Lives Matter? ... Could the black community ever work with Trump? ...

Darrell’s new book, Divided Politics, Divided Nation ... Why is racial demographic change so important to conservatives? ... How Darrell’s conservative Christian family exemplifies the ideological divide ... Identity politics on the Brown University campus ... Darrell: The push to impeach Trump is misguided ... Darrell’s challenge: Take a conservative (or a liberal) to lunch ...

Why NYC’s elite schools are ditching standardized entry exams ... John: The academic achievement gap is a cultural issue ... Getting good grades and the pressure against "acting white" ... What is oppositional culture theory? ... John: There's no replacement for parental instruction ... Has there been a sea change on the stigma against "acting white"? ... The College Board’s controversial new “adversity index" ...

Wilfred’s new book, Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War ... The real statistics on racial hate crimes ... How the “continuing oppression narrative” hurts race relations in the US ... Wilfred: Being a conservative at a historically black college isn’t so bad ... When Trump’s message resonates with black voters ... Does social media magnify racism? ... Wilfred explains what the race/IQ debate gets wrong ... Wilfred’s research assessing privilege along all axes of identity ... Settling the matter: Is Trump really a racist? ...

Michele responds to a recent article in Quillette, “Public Education’s Dirty Secret” ... What does it mean for a teacher to put instruction first? ... How does a student’s race influence teaching styles? ... Michele: There’s no single correct approach to student discipline ... Should teachers be subject to standardized tests, too? ...

John returns to talk about political polarization ... What made the 2016 election so polarizing? ... A brief history of American political polarization ... Glenn: Dialogue is great, but how do we find consensus around policy? ... How John’s family history prepared him for politics ... Was Obama a disappointment for John? ... Lessons from John’s 2014 congressional campaign against Maxine Waters ...

Glenn and John talk at Harvard about affirmative action and reparations ... Does affirmative action put its recipients at a classroom disadvantage? ... Glenn on the lawsuit against Harvard admissions ... John: Reparations have already happened ... What are the root causes of black poverty? ... Glenn and John take questions from the audience ...

The new documentary Charm City, featuring the Rose Street Community Center ... Theory, righteousness, and Glenn’s path to clean living ... Police and public policy in Baltimore ... Alex: Morality isn’t clear-cut on the streets ... Why black grief is often interpreted as anger ... Mr. C’s lesson on “snitching” ...

Why Amy is dubbed the “controversial” law professor ... Why the Intellectual Dark Web is maligned in online media circles ... How the drive for academic stardom stifles the climate debate ... Does the IDW have its own “grievance politics”? ... Glenn’s vision for a new kind of university ... Amy: The humanities are “a jobs program” ... Why do liberal students feel unsafe on campus? ...

The reparations debate returns ... Glenn: Reparations are a "terrible idea" ... John: Not all black people are paupers ... Is there an opening for a Democrat to run to the right on this? ... John recalls the childhood drug dealer next door ... The thin line between having a thug pose and becoming a thug ... Why are there so few black students at NYC's elite public schools? ... Glenn: Lowering admissions standards would be a disaster ...