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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com On this segment from my latest livestream, John McWhorter and I are joined by journalist Tyler Austin Harper of the Atlantic . We discuss Tyler's latest piece for the magazine, which focuses on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's influence over humanities research in the U.S. Tyler argues that the half-billion-plus dollars Mellon awards each year has allowed it to shift humanities scholarship toward an activist model, with identity-based social justice as its main concern. Tyler's Atlantic article, "What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education" The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported , so to those of us who are…