John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater
The Glenn Show · Glenn Loury and Mark Sussman
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Show Notes
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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
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