About this episode
In this episode, Glenn Loury and John McWhorter address a variety of questions from subscribers, discussing topics such as cultural identity, parenting fears, and the implications of social systems in diverse societies.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last month, John McWhorter and Glenn explored the latest tranche of questions from full subscribers. They start off talking with TGS writer and editor Mark Sussman about Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his new adaptation of The Odyssey. Aaron Kara asks if diverse societies can sustain social systems in which racial identities bear uneven cultural caches . Glenn often says “Tolstoy is mine” as a way to exemplify our shared inheritance of the Western tradition . John Bingham asks if non-African Americans would be equally authorized to say “Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King are mine.” As a new mother, Maddie Fontaine asks whether one ever truly gets over the fear that comes with letting your children become independent and move freely through the world. Martha Rodgers Boyles asks Glenn and John to discuss the influence of the late Robert Woodson Sr. Stan asks whether the country would react differently than it did in 2020 if there was another George-Floyd-type incident tomorrow. In the chat, Chris…
People in this episode
Host: Glenn Loury
Guest: John McWhorter
Topics covered
- Q&A
- diversity
- cultural identity
- parenting
- social systems
- Western tradition
- language
Keywords
- Q&A
- diversity
- cultural identity
- parenting
- social systems
- Western tradition
- Black English
- Robert Woodson
- George Floyd
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet
Places: 2020, George Floyd
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