PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater 30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art” 40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis 47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures 1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability 1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020 1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit? 1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker Recorded April 13, 2024 Links & Reading Clifton’s Substack, State of the Arts Thomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line Thomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey Cheryl West’s play, Before It Hits Home Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days Donald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films Donald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television The Great Barrington Declaration Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism 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