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0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship

4:11 Black and conservative in Reagan’s America

8:30 The social science hall of fame

12:45 Jews, assimilation, and the quantitative revolution

17:56 Human universalism vs. ethno-national particularity

21:42 Historicizing “the Jew”

23:47 Danny: Larry Summers can’t see outside his own neoliberal paradigm

27:50 Are we entering a period of, as Marx wrote, “mutual ruin”?

30:46 Is capitalism leading us toward nuclear war?

37:18 What the Manhattan Institute incident taught Glenn about his own book

42:02 Glenn: “I’m rethinking everything”

46:40 Is the right reverting to a pre-New Deal political paradigm?

51:37 Is Israel a reversion to an Early Modern model of nation-building?

58:07 American Jews’s role in Israel’s creation and perpetuation

1:03:04 Why Glenn previously censored himself on Gaza

1:09:30 Glenn: So far, I’m disappointed in Trump

Recorded August 6, 2025

Links and Readings

Danny and Derek’s podcast, American Prestige

Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship

John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

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