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The Truth about George Floyd's Death (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-12-08T19:47:43
A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions ... John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intim...
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What Black America Needs to Thrive (Glenn Loury&Erec Smith) from 2023-12-04T17:05:43
Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ....
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Gaza&the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner) from 2023-11-29T20:14:28
The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish student...
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The Identity Trap (Glenn Loury&Yascha Mounk) from 2023-11-17T18:15:47
A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to ...
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An American Martyr in Persia (Glenn Loury&Reza Aslan) from 2023-11-13T00:16:28
Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democra...
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Thinking Through the Gaza War (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-11-03T22:21:14
Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let ...
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America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine (Glenn Loury&John Mearsheimer) from 2023-10-30T18:07:23
Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates...
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A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee) from 2023-10-13T16:14:04
Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Co...
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The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik) from 2023-10-09T15:46:08
What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americ...
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Dems Take Fire from the Left (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Sabrina Salvati ) from 2023-09-29T19:04:52
How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Don...
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How the Race Game Is Played (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Tyler Austin Harper) from 2023-09-22T21:40:07
Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “t...
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The Crucible of Desegregation (Glenn Loury&Shep Melnick) from 2023-09-15T17:36:50
Biden’s new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with clai...
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Whose Election Narrative? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-09-08T22:54:41
Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyric...
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The Adversity of Diversity (Glenn Loury&Carol M. Swain) from 2023-09-03T18:32:49
Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The rede...
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What Were We Thinking in 2007? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-08-25T15:57:22
A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his m...
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An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front (Glenn Loury&Haim Shweky) from 2023-08-19T20:05:19
Haim’s history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire’s lingua franca ... Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in ...
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The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma) from 2023-08-11T19:59
The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienc...
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Affirmative Elitism (Glenn Loury&Jay Caspian Kang) from 2023-08-04T17:40:42
How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed ... Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced ... Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated agai...
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The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Arcidiacono) from 2023-07-28T15:36:21
Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case ... Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? ... Why Peter got interested in affirmative action ... Glenn was for affir...
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Can Hitchens Save the Left? (Glenn Loury&Matt Johnson) from 2023-07-22T22:09:41
How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Corne...
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The End of Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-07-14T15:04:19
John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action ... Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment? ......
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A COVID Dissenter Speaks Out (Glenn Loury&Jay Bhattacharya) from 2023-07-07T12:39:26
The problem with scientific consensus ... Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” ... Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs ... Persuadin...
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Why Is Cornel West Running for President? (Glenn Loury&Cornel West) from 2023-07-01T21:57:12
Why Cornel is running for president ... How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home ... Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters ... Is there tension between Cor...
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Canceling "Culture in America" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jonathan Rieder) from 2023-06-23T17:19:31
Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled ... The fragility of liberal arts education ... Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom ... Is there a future for free inquiry? ... John...
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The Making of a Political Warrior (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-06-09T17:03:52
Inside the mind of a crack columnist ... The blowback from Norman Finkelstein’s TGS appearance ... Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? ... How did MLK become MLK? ... What’s ...
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How to Teach African American History (Glenn Loury, Charles Love, and Donique Rolle) from 2023-06-02T16:54:47
Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism ... Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory ... Charles: We are the 97%! ... How Donique...
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Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-05-26T17:17:56
John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” ... How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields ... Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … ... … but the New York subway is ge...
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Why Wokeness Is a Scam (Glenn Loury&Norman Finkelstein) from 2023-05-19T16:48:42
Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? ... Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz ... Is Israel an apartheid state? ... Identifying with Paul Robeson ... Norman’s new boo...
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I Feel, Therefore I Am (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Mark Goldblatt) from 2023-04-28T20:21:14
Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism ... Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought ... The “mysticism” of woke thinking ... Learning from Christine ...
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The End of the American Century (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2023-04-21T16:16:08
The gigification of academia ... Is education just another commodity? ... What do historians do? ... Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel ... The liberalism (not the leftism) ...
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A Liberal Defense of Free Speech (Glenn Loury&Jonathan Rauch) from 2023-04-08T17:32:58
What’s wrong with cancelation? ... A defense of Charles Murray ... Cancelation and the closet ... Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth ... Jonathan: “The market...
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Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law (Glenn Loury, David Sacks, and Spencer Segal) from 2023-03-31T19:29:37
The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at Stanford Law School ... Why did people have a problem with Duncan? ... Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges ... The necess...
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From Equity to Equality (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-03-25T15:11:37
John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher ... The rigors of the lecture circuit ... The difference between equity and equality ... How do we know that African Americans are just as s...
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Diversifying the Scientific Imagination (Glenn Loury&Sylvester Gates) from 2023-03-17T16:40:58
What led Jim to the forefront of physics ... Jim explains supersymmetry ... Is there racism in the sciences? ... The role of culture and imagination in the sciences ... The scientific “big bang...
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The Private Side of Public Life (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-03-10T17:50:22
John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market ... Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043? ... Regret, doubt, and going against the tide ... How Glenn and John negotiate their public profi...
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The Journey of Humanity (Glenn Loury&Oded Galor) from 2023-03-03T19:57:22
Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality ... How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history ... Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagn...
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Black Professor in Anti-Racist Hell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Vincent Lloyd) from 2023-02-24T21:53:18
Woke religion or woke cult? ... Does suffering confer authority on the sufferer? ... A world without “anti-Black domination” ... Is there an alternative to the criminal justice system? ... Domi...
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Black, Christian, and Conservative (Glenn Loury&Delano Squires) from 2023-02-17T18:39:07
Why Delano is a conservative ... Delano’s critique of Raphael Warnock and the “Afristocracy” ... Delano: “The designer is the definer” ... Abortion and Black lives ... Are abortion rights nec...
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The Killing of Tyre Nichols (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Moskos) from 2023-02-10T21:45:47
The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing ... The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing ... What set off the cops? ... Why Peter thinks police units like...
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The Organizer Mindset (Glenn Loury&Ernesto Cortés, Jr.) from 2023-02-03T21:18:22
Ernie’s work as an organizer ... Tension, polarization, and reconciliation ... The drama of organizing ... The definition of power ... Ernesto’s work getting running water and sewers to border ...
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Glenn and John Go Across the Pond (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-01-27T22:04:44
Glenn and John go to Cambridge ... The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy ... John: “Physics is physics” ... The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies ... Is “getting past race” mo...
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Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions (Glenn Loury&Steven Koonin) from 2023-01-20T21:29:55
Steven’s best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters ... Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief” ... The complexiti...
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The Best of Glenn and John 2022 (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2023-01-13T20:38:38
A brief intro from Glenn ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The unified field theory of non-whiteness ... An honest conversation about crime ... Glenn’s birthday menu ... It’s time to...
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The Tyranny of Merit (Glenn Loury&Michael Sandel) from 2023-01-06T21:20:09
Some of Michael’s key works ... Meritocratic ideals and meritocratic fantasies ... The animus against elites ... Shouldn’t innovators reap their rewards? ... Does more profit create more va...
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Debating Deracialization (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Greg Thomas) from 2022-12-30T15:18:12
The principles of jazz ... “Deracialization Now” ... Becoming Omni-American ... What’s wrong with racial identification? ... Black victimization and cultural memory ... The transformations of ...
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Speaking Out in an Age of Partisan Rancor (Glenn Loury&Hamish McKenzie) from 2022-12-24T16:11:02
Why Glenn does The Glenn Show ... Glenn: “If I was going to vote for Trump, I wouldn’t tell you” ... “The cat is out of the bag” on election denial ... Modeling epistemic modesty ... Why is ra...
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How Should We Handle Antisemitism? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-12-16T18:59:02
Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West’s antisemitism? ... The two words you never say together ... Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US? ... The mythological black pas...
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Capitalism vs. Socialism (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Richard Wolff) from 2022-12-09T19:58:32
Is capitalism a “winner take all” system? ... Why does the word “socialism” make so many Americans afraid? ... Has neoliberalism been beneficial for the US? ... Capitalism’s role in rising livin...
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A Peek Behind the Antiracist Curtain (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and James Beaman) from 2022-12-02T17:43:10
How the pandemic affected diversity in the theater ... James gets drawn into an “antiracist” meltdown during rehearsal ... Juilliard students revolt ... A plea for mutual understanding in the th...
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The Ethics of Black Identity (Glenn Loury, Reihan Salam, Kmele Foster, Shelby Steele&Robert Woodson) from 2022-11-25T20:33:53
What does “black identity” mean? ... Why Bob left the Civil Rights Movement ... Shelby: Our problem today is freedom, not racism ... Glenn: We can’t afford to give up on black collective goals ...
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The Wake of the "Red Wave" (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-11-18T14:04:11
Glenn’s culinary dilemma ... Why the Republican Party depresses John ... What’s the difference between Herschel Walker and John Fetterman? ... Glenn’s argument for voting Republican ... Woke th...
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The Heterodox Docs of Rob Montz (Glenn Loury&Rob Montz) from 2022-11-11T14:44:34
The appeals of immigration restrictionism ... The 2013 Ray Kelly incident at Brown University ... Rob’s forthcoming documentary about James Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse ... The response to Rob’s R...
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The Golden Age of Black Heterodoxy (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-11-04T22:51:09
Walking through the valley of the shadow of death ... Earning credibility through self-discrediting disclosure ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The golden age of black heterodoxy .....
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Criminal (In)Justice (Glenn Loury&Rafael Mangual) from 2022-10-28T21:34:19
How Rafael came to the Manhattan Institute ... Rafael’s new book, Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most ... Is prison the right res...
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The Racist Taunt That Wasn't (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-10-21T16:57:59
Is racist heckling at sporting events a real problem? ... John: “If you can’t be made fun of, you’re not part of the group” ... The LA City Council racism scandal ... Why is there no Latino Mich...
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Chicago's Drift Toward Dystopia (Glenn Loury&Matt Rosenberg) from 2022-10-14T16:01:38
Matt’s profile of the artist Rahmaan Statik ... Chicago’s “Great Unraveling” ... Is Chicago slouching toward dystopia? ... How will the near-end of cash bail affect crime in Chicago? ... The ...
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DEI in the Orchestral World (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Don Baton ) from 2022-10-07T15:36:16
Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity? ... The decline of blind auditions ... Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians? ... Why Don is protecting his re...
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The Fight for Due Process under Title IX (Glenn Loury&Lara Bazelon) from 2022-09-30T16:48:10
Lara’s critique of Title IX adjudications ... Why Lara defended a college student accused of rape ... Lara’s cross-examination of the accuser ... The trouble with “Believe Women” ... What the T...
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F.R.E.E. Agency (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Rowe) from 2022-09-23T14:14:51
How Rodney King led to Ian’s podcast, Invisible Men ... Blaming the system and blaming the victim ... Ian: I run schools to show my students they can do hard things ... What’s so special about m...
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What Explains Persistent Racial Inequality? (Glenn Loury&Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2022-09-16T15:10:21
Introducing Glenn Loury ... What is “social capital”? ... Racial inequality and self-segregation ... Glenn: “The jig is up” on affirmative action ... Balancing preferences and colorblindness ...
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Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-09-09T17:43:55
What’s on the menu for Glenn’s birthday party ... John’s Twitter spat with Ibram X. Kendi ... What do we lose by changing testing standards? ... Glenn: If groups matter, then culture matters ...
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The Cultural Dimensions of American Conflict (Glenn Loury&Steve McIntosh) from 2022-09-02T18:08:48
A scheduling announcement from Glenn ... Steve's latest book, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow into a Better Version of Itself ... From modernity to progressive postmodernism ... Ar...
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Freedom of Inquiry on the Line (Glenn Loury&Amy Wax) from 2022-08-26T14:43:45
Amy’s recent conflict with the Penn Law School administration ... Amy responds to her dean’s charges of racism, sexism, and xenophobia ... Should we take students’ feelings into account when dis...
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Rewriting the Script on Race (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-08-19T14:50:29
A report on the Loury family reunion ... Identity politics onstage and backstage ... Insecurity-driven campus grievance ... Glenn: When will non-right-wing leaders say “Enough!” to racial griev...
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Meet the Manhattan Institute (Glenn Loury&Reihan Salam) from 2022-08-12T16:25:26
Glenn’s impact on Reihan ... How Reihan became president of the Manhattan Institute ... What is the Manhattan Institute’s relationship to Eric Adams’s administration? ... The value of dissenter...
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Capitalism and Democracy in Post-Industrial America (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Richard Wolff) from 2022-08-05T15:20:37
A special announcement from Glenn ... Richard’s journey from quiet Marxist to public intellectual ... Why Youngstown, Ohio was left behind ... Richard: Capitalist ownership is inherently anti-d...
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Fear of a Black Universe (Glenn Loury&Stephon Alexander) from 2022-07-29T20:03:49
Glenn and Steph’s jam session ... Steph’s adventures in the multiverse ... The parallels between black art and physics ... The centrality of self-reference in Steph’s work ... Is there a racial...
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Race and Conservatism: Walker, Thomas, and Wax (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-07-22T17:27:07
John: Republicans’ elevation of Herschel Walker is an insult ... If Walker is so inept, why does he have so much support? ... Where’s the outrage over racist attacks on Clarence Thomas? ... Tho...
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Our Gun Problem (Glenn Loury&Rajiv Sethi) from 2022-07-15T15:16:45
The cryptocurrency bezzle ... Rajiv’s critique of the contact hypothesis ... Will popular proposed gun control measures meaningfully reduce homicides? ... Can we talk about culture without bec...
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Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Sherrod Small, Jon Laster&Nimesh Patel) from 2022-07-08T17:14:24
Why do race and gender trump socioeconomics in affirmative action considerations? ... Are Glenn and John making a difference in the race debate? ... The argument for charter schools ... Glenn:...
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Who Is Responsible for the Russia-Ukraine War? (Glenn Loury&Nikita Petrov) from 2022-07-01T15:47:52
Nikita asks: Who are “my people”? ... How much responsibility do we bear for the actions of our governments? ... The problem of racial affiliation ... The use and abuse of group identity ... I...
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Rejecting the Tokenism of "Diversity" (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-06-24T15:51:24
John reports on his rustic Catskills bungalow ... Parents protest Princeton public schools “dumbing down” their math curriculum ... How much educational transparency is owed to parents? ... Ho...
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Structural Stupidities of the Left and Right (Glenn Loury&Jonathan Haidt) from 2022-06-17T21:32:42
Glenn asks: Is Jon’s heterodoxy insufficiently pugilistic? ... Jon’s theory of social media-driven “structural stupidity” ... Do the Republican Party’s structural flaws negate its policies? ......
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Race and Inequality across the Atlantic (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-06-10T18:06:14
Race and economics in the UK ... How long will the concerns of native-born Black Americans drive the race conversation? ... The shaky “people of color” coalition ... Trying to account for racial...
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Voices of Black Mothers United&Glenn's Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech (Voices of Black Mothers United&Glenn's Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech (Glenn Loury, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., and Sylvia Bennett-Stone)) from 2022-06-03T19:23:43
The work of the Woodson Center ... Sylvia’s recent five-city tour to support victims of violence ... How tragedy moved Sylvia to start Voices of Black Mothers United ... Sylvia: We must work wit...
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The Immigration Debate after Buffalo (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-05-27T19:26:30
John: We need a word besides “racism” to distinguish racial inequities from what happened in Buffalo ... Glenn: I don’t agree with everything Tucker Carlson says, but he’s not a racist ... Demogr...
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What Is Social Science (Glenn Loury&Daniel Kaufman) from 2022-05-20T18:16:19
How scientific are the social sciences? ... Glenn defends the reliability of economic predictions ... The strengths and weaknesses of “natural experiments” ... How much does culture affect ec...
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Cancellation at St. Olaf College (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Edmund Santurri) from 2022-05-13T16:22:09
Why Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community ... The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events ... John: Administrators at St. Olaf should b...
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Debating Progressive Policy (Glenn Loury&Briahna Joy Gray) from 2022-05-06T16:44:47
Acknowledging the black middle class ... How the Democratic Party works against progressives ... Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters ... Shou...
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A Future for Black Tradition (Glenn Loury&Greg Thomas) from 2022-04-29T17:10:22
Greg’s work with the Jazz Leadership Project ... How does a “black” art form operate within a corporate environment? ... What’s left of the legacy of Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Stanley C...
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The Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual (Glenn Loury&Stephanie Lepp) from 2022-04-22T19:32:15
What is Glenn’s goal as a public intellectual? ... Glenn has his critique of affirmative action … ... … but is articulating the critique enough? ... Glenn: My raison d’être is to give voice to ...
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Trayvon Martin, 10 Years Later (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-04-15T17:43:14
The NYT commemorates the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death ... What really happened between Martin and George Zimmerman? ... How John’s relationship with The Root frayed ... Learning ...
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TGS Live at the Comedy Cellar (Glenn Loury et al) from 2022-04-08T19:34:37
Some unspeakable truths ... Are comics now afraid to speak their minds onstage? ... The difference between telling the truth and getting a laugh ... Can jokes actually do harm? ... Nikki Jax on...
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Matters of Race, Matters of Mind (Glenn Loury&Sam Harris) from 2022-04-01T16:59:59
The principle that race shouldn’t matter and the fact that it does ... The high stakes of affirmative action ... In defense of Charles Murray ... Are there facts we’re better off not knowing? ....
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What Is Putin Thinking? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Matt Taibbi) from 2022-03-25T19:51:53
Matt’s brief career as a professional basketball player in Mongolia ... What drove Putin to invade Ukraine? ... Are there limits to Putin’s power in Russia? ... Putting ourselves in Russia’s geo...
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Ukraine and American Decline (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2022-03-18T17:10:34
Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony ... Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US? ... How the war in Ukraine could in...
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Capital Offenses (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-03-11T17:41:32
Glenn contemplates exiting academia ... Why should Jeffrey Lieberman lose his jobs over a tacky tweet? ... The historical significance of the word “Negro” ... The revolt against “Latinx” ... Wh...
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What Next, Chicago? (Glenn Loury&Matt Rosenberg) from 2022-03-04T16:24:10
Matt’s new book, What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son ... Piecing together the puzzle of race, crime, and corruption ... Some Chicago success stories ... Matt: Charter schools a...
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The Problem with Racial Preferences (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-02-25T17:56:25
John: Don’t dismiss West Side Story just because it was written by white men ... If the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, will higher education “resegregate”? ... Are meritocracy and...
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The Economist's View of the World (Glenn Loury&Steven E. Rhoads) from 2022-02-18T18:28:51
Steven’s recently reissued and updated book, The Economist’s View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being ... Why is Steven, a political scientist, interested in how economists think? ... The ...
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Race, Representation, and the Supreme Court (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-02-11T19:28:29
Ilya Shapiro’s controversial tweet about Biden’s imminent Supreme Court nomination ... John dips out and Glenn delivers a soliloquy ... John returns and clarifies his academic resume ... Why Jo...
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Money Magic (Glenn Loury&Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2022-02-04T17:31:26
Larry’s new book, Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life ... Why did Larry, a serious academic economist, write a financial advice book? ... Why investing...
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The Burdens of Black Freedom (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-01-28T18:28:15
What political values does Joe Biden represent? ... Do new election laws amount to race-based voter disenfranchisement? ... Glenn: Black people are free. But what should we do with that freedom? ...
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Which Black Lives Matter? (Glenn Loury&Heather Mac Donald) from 2022-01-21T17:03:36
Heather’s deep dive into African American literature ... The impact of George Floyd on violent crime rates ... Heather: Why doesn’t the mainstream media cover the violent deaths of black children...
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Are There More Capitol Riots to Come? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2022-01-14T18:01:25
The significance of Sidney Poitier’s Caribbean origins ... Revisiting the Lani Guinier controversy ... How Guinier’s views eventually triumphed ... Where are the “heterodox” black women? ...
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How to Restore Impoverished Communities (Glenn Loury&Robert L. Woodson, Sr.) from 2022-01-07T16:55:33
Bob: “There is no monolithic ‘Black Community’” ... How much anti-poverty spending actually goes to poor people? ... Recalibrating welfare’s perverse incentives ... Can community faith-based int...
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The Best of "The Black Guys" 2021 (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-12-31T16:56:47
A special "thank you" from Glenn ... Race and classics ... Maintaining domestic tranquility in the face of political differences ... The "badass motherfucker" problem ... An "aria" on free will...
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Contesting American Identity (Glenn Loury&Amy Wax) from 2021-12-24T17:24:37
The latest attempt to get Amy fired from Penn Law ... Should we be worried even about elite non-Western immigration? ... Amy: “There’s nothing wrong with stereotyping” when it’s done correctly ....
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Unsettling the "Settled Questions" (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-12-17T16:06:55
This regular TGS guest was recently a clue on Jeopardy ... Is race-conscious math education as radical as it sounds? ... Why diversity, when done right, can be an asset ... John on The View, ...
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Race and Crime after George Floyd (Glenn Loury&Rav Arora) from 2021-12-10T15:00:39
How Rav got his start on the crime, policing, and identity politics beat ... Why is a Canadian college student writing about race and crime in the US? ... Rav: We need police reform but also more...
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Anger, Shame, Sadness, and Race in America (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-12-03T17:14:18
Are Glenn and John wasting their time by talking about race? ... How Glenn and John’s families shaped their attitudes toward race ... Looking back on past radicalism ... Glenn: Is my anger nec...
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Fending Off Inflation (Glenn Loury&Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2021-11-26T16:43:34
Why high inflation is a potentially dire problem ... Are we headed the way of Weimar Germany and Argentina? ... How short-term government spending can function as a longterm investment ... The...
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Systemic Racism's Greatest Hits (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-11-19T16:58:41
John takes a step back from podcasting ... Confronting the critique of systemic racism ... The persistence of victimhood ... Accounting for the racial wealth gap ... Glenn: When it comes to in...
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Whose Fourth of July?: Black Patriotism and Racial Inequality in America (Glenn Loury) from 2021-11-12T16:15:19
“Tolstoy is mine. Dickens is mine. Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein are mine” ... “Our Americanness is much more important than our blackness” ... Conservatives cannot go back to "business as usual"...
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Say It Loud! (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Randall Kennedy) from 2021-11-05T17:44:51
Randy: “I feel torn and, frankly, bewildered” about the state of race in the US ... Can we blame Trump for the tenor of racial discourse today? ... Crediting the achievements of black Americans a...
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Thoughts on the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Glenn Loury) from 2021-10-29T18:45:41
A quick announcement ... "Structural racism is an empty category" ... The bias narrative vs. the development narrative ... Race as a social phenomenon ... Racism is not the cause of behavioral ...
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The NYC Exam School Controversy (Glenn Loury&Wai Wah Chin) from 2021-10-22T15:43:30
What are NYC exam schools? ... The recent attempt to change exam school admissions ... Wai Wah: Changes to exam schools will discriminate against Asian students ... Wai Wah's attempts to expand ...
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Authentically Black (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-10-15T14:38:17
John's linguistic adventure in Brighton Beach ... The complex racial and economic dynamics of redlining ... The problem with John's NYT "megaphone" ... A progress report on Glenn's memoir ... T...
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The Case against "The Case for Reparations" (Glenn Loury&David Kaiser) from 2021-10-08T15:26:19
The post-Vietnam reevaluation of the Cold War ... David: Academic historians largely have abandoned the idea of objective truth ... Were black people really excluded from the New Deal? ... The f...
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The Past and Future of Black Political Leadership (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-10-01T14:21:06
Some posh new (temporary) digs for The Glenn Show ... The challenges and liberties of John's NY Times gig ... John's efforts to help mount an unproduced black opera ... The deracialization of ...
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Non-Zero-Sum Thinking on the World Stage (Glenn Loury&Robert Wright) from 2021-09-24T15:04:37
Subscribe to The Glenn Show on YouTube ... The origins of Bloggingheads ... Non-zero-sum thinking on the global stage ... Bob: We’re not focusing on the most pressing foreign policy dilemmas ...
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American Empire before and after 9/11 (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2021-09-17T14:57:47
Daniel’s new podcast. American Prestige ... Did the US needlessly prolong the Cold War? ... Daniel: The Cold War actually limited political liberty within the US ... The cultural logic of Ameri...
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Reckoning with the Relics of Racism (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-09-10T14:09:13
John's new gig writing for the New York Times ... Wisconsin students get a "racist" rock removed from campus ... Are present-day universities morally accountable for their involvement in the slav...
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Psychedelic Economics (Glenn Loury&Nikita Petrov) from 2021-09-03T15:09:58
Glenn's book leave ... A psychedelic experience inspires Nikita to talk to Glenn ... Healthy vs. unhealthy human connection ... Glenn: Critical race theory is "self-absorbed and small" ... Risi...
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Narrative (originally posted 11/12/2007) (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-08-27T16:18:45
Revisiting Glenn and John's first Bloggingheads conversation ... John's gig as a columnist ... The Black intellectual's challenge ... John: There is life outside the academy ... Disappearing ...
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Are Disparities Caused by "Culture"? (Glenn Loury&Briahna Joy Gray) from 2021-08-20T14:20:33
The bias narrative vs. the development narrative ... What are the causes of “behavioral maladies” in black communities? ... Will more funding for social services reduce violent crime? ... Glenn...
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What’s “Systemic” about “Systemic Racism”? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-08-13T15:28:12
Does systemic racism still exist in the US? ... Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism” ... John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false” ...
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Parents, Children, and Systemic Racism (Glenn Loury&Lara Bazelon) from 2021-08-06T15:37:38
How Glenn and Lara each approach systemic racism ... Lara: The Yutico Briley case exposes the roots of systemic racism ... Trying to understand the equities and inequities of crime and punishmen...
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The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley) from 2021-07-30T16:00:40
Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler ... Making the case for Sowell’s significance ... The task of the popularizer ... Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important...
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Contesting Obama's Footprint (Glenn Loury&Richard Epstein) from 2021-07-23T15:18:35
Why Richard is trying to stop the construction of the Obama Presidential Center ... Richard's stymied attempt to stop alterations to Chicago's Soldiers Field ... Raising questions about the OPC's...
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Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-07-16T15:39:31
John McWhorter, master of his craft ... Is John a “Black linguist”? Is Glenn a “Black economist”? ... Al Sharpton and Benjamin Crump address police violence against white victims ... Defining ...
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Burdens of Freedom (Glenn Loury&Lawrence Mead) from 2021-07-09T16:13:08
Intro ... Larry's view of Western and non-Western culture ... Is African American culture "non-Western"? ... Larry: "Freedom is a threat" to Black and Latino families ... African American indiv...
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Rejecting Racial Determinism (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-07-02T16:00:59
A peek inside Glenn’s writing process ... Aaron Hana’s critique of Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele ... Extending the presumption of free will to Black communities ... Who gets to opine on race m...
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Facing Reality (Glenn Loury&Charles Murray) from 2021-06-25T15:54:35
How Charles deals with his notoriety ... Charles's new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America ... Grappling with the fact of group disparities ... Threats from the left, threats...
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Race and Classics (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-06-18T15:32:18
John takes issue with antiracism in Princeton’s classics department ... Glenn: Black people should embrace and exceed institutional standards ... Meeting the challenge of academic performance .....
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Conversations with Cornel West (Glenn Loury, Cornel West, and Teodros Kiros) from 2021-06-11T16:12:12
Teodros's new book, Conversations with Cornel West ... Cornel offers spiritual counsel to Glenn ... Between commercialization and democratic decay ... Glenn: “The glass is way more than half-fu...
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Falling into the Fiscal Gap (Glenn Loury&Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2021-05-28T15:49:44
Larry's concerns about the debt-to-GDP ratio ... On the general relativity of fiscal language ... Why would anybody buy U.S. treasury bonds? ... Larry's defense of fiscal hawkishness ... A cr...
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The Etiology of Victimology (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-05-21T15:50:40
John's appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher" ... Why John's 2000 book Losing the Race remains relevant today ... The "noble victim complex" ... The counterproductivity of victim narratives ...
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How Mothers are Working to End Street Violence (Glenn Loury&Sylvia Bennett-Stone) from 2021-05-14T16:00:48
The founding of Voices of Black Mothers United ... How the criminal justice system failed Sylvia's daughter ... Sylvia's work: advocacy, community intervention, and positive policing ... What is...
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Anti-Anti-Racism in U.S. Schools (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-05-07T15:12:36
Critical Race Theory's prevalence in American schools ... What’s at the root of racial disparities in education? ... Destandardizing the standards for success ... The evolution of how we commun...
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The Work: a New Frontier for The Glenn Show (Glenn Loury&Nikita Petrov) from 2021-04-30T15:22:03
The impact of the Glenn Show and new initiatives ... How to reach out to the Glenn Show: thework@glennshow.com ... The current climate: how afraid are people and how afraid should they be? ... T...
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The Slippery Slope to Hell (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-04-23T19:34:31
Fighting through Covid-19 and the pandemic ... Daunte Wright and how police violence goes beyond race ... The "fake" narrative about Black people and the cops ... The tremendously high stakes of...
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What Happened to Civil Rights? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-04-02T20:16:08
Life as a university professor during Covid ... What happened to the civil rights movement? ... Glenn and John disagree on voter suppression ... Debating Stacey Abrams’ approach to politics .....
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John Rawls at 100 (Glenn Loury&Joshua Cohen) from 2021-03-26T22:44:10
Who was moral and political philosopher John Rawls? ... Why Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" is such an important text ... Is taxation an infringement on liberty? ... Understanding the freedom vs. l...
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Racism at Georgetown? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-03-19T21:12:37
The contentious origins of Glenn and John's relationship ... Cancellations at Georgetown and racial disparities in academic performance ... What is to blame for racial disparities in academic per...
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 4 (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2021-03-12T12:27:09
Patreon Q&A announcement ... Glenn's initial impressions of BLM ... How should racial justice advocates advance their interests? ... The problem of colleges as "spaces of consumption" ... The p...
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In Defense of Knowledge (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-03-05T18:57:17
New anti-racist guidelines for teaching math in Oregon ... Defending the ideals of the Enlightenment ... What anti-racists get wrong about knowledge and achievement ... Why class matters more th...
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How to Avert the Apocalypse (Glenn Loury&Robert Wright) from 2021-02-26T21:12:40
Changing the narrative on race in America ... Navigating the increasingly polarized landscape ... Why Glenn takes issue with the 1619 Project ... Bob’s new Apocalypse Aversion Project ... Confr...
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The Pitfalls of Dissent (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-02-19T22:53:54
Do Glenn and John over-discuss race and racism? ... The hurdles to hosting debates on TGS ... The guys consider their role in the national discourse on race ... The challenges of being a contrar...
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Wokeism's Postmodern Roots (Glenn Loury&James Lindsay) from 2021-02-12T20:00:54
Tracing wokeism's origins to mid-century postmodernism ... Determining the right historical narrative on race ... Do progressives have a problem confronting their own racism? ... What can and ca...
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Wokebusters (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-02-05T23:03:09
Monthly Q&A with Glenn and John ... TGS 2.0, new newsletters, and John's new book ... Critiquing the Biden administration's first moves ... The excesses and dangers of critical race theory ... ...
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What's Driving the Upsurge in Urban Homicides? (Glenn Loury&Robert Cherry) from 2021-01-30T08:59:59
Robert's work on rising homicide rates in U.S cities ... The connection between work, school, and crime ... How some criminal justice reform attempts have failed ... Why the massive upsurge in c...
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Reckoning with the Capitol Riot (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2021-01-22T16:23:06
Glenn Show 2.0 and reactions to the storming of the Capitol ... What if it was BLM protesters that stormed the Capitol? ... Glenn: I was wrong about the threat Trump posed to democracy ... The ...
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 3 (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2021-01-15T16:13:07
The three books that pushed Glenn away from the right ... A crisis of identity: who is Glenn Loury and what is his project? ... Glenn's left-leaning moderatism and work in the 90s ... The link b...
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2021-01-01T14:30:57
Glenn's rightward shift in the early 80s ... A feeling of alienation from the Black elite ... Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the "American empire" ... Glenn's emergence as a public ...
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Who's Afraid to Debate Glenn Loury? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-12-25T15:36:03
Why won't Jones, Kendi, and others come on the Glenn Show? ... The need for more discussions between black intellectuals who disagree ... The dilemma faced by contrarian black intellectuals ... ...
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Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 1 (Glenn Loury&Daniel Bessner) from 2020-12-18T16:49:52
A working-class undergrad with a job, a wife, and two kids ... Why Glenn was drawn to economics ... How studying economics shaped Glenn's politics ... Anti-Semitism at Harvard and the origins of...
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The Warm Cloak of Victimhood (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-12-11T15:07:38
Coleman Hughes named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" ... The predictable platitudes of John's critics ... The waning of wokeness ... Should Thomas Jefferson have known better? ... What is driving toda...
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The Dark Matter of Developmental Psychology (Glenn Loury&James Heckman) from 2020-12-04T17:55:13
The political landscape in Chicago in 2020 ... How do you improve a human being? ... What "The Bell Curve" missed about human development ... How teaching and empowering parents positively impac...
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Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-11-27T16:01:10
Welcome to the Glenn Show 2.0 ... A path to forgiveness for the canceled ... John’s upcoming book and wokeism after Trump ... Why is it so easy to get away with junk sociology today? ... John s...
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Ibram X. Kendi and the problem with public intellectuals today (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-11-23T20:21:46
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'Liberties,' a New Journal (Glenn Loury&Leon Wieseltier) from 2020-11-16T20:21:50
Leon's new journal Liberties and the current political climate ... Leon: Art "should not be subjected to a political standard" ... Glenn and Leon disagree on Trump ... Leon, an “unrepentant inte...
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The Creators of "What Killed Michael Brown?" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Steele, and Shelby Steele) from 2020-11-09T23:21
Glenn announces a new version of The Glenn Show ... Eli and Shelby's new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... "Why is it so hard to see the truth here?" ... Shelby: Post-'60s liberalism i...
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Trump's Democrats (Glenn Loury&Jon Shields) from 2020-11-03T03:26:56
Jon's new book, Trump's Democrats ... Doing ethnography in the Rust Belt, an Italian-American suburb, and Appalachia ... Jon: Trump is a familiar figure to these voters ... How Trump embodies ho...
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Free Speech in Academia (Glenn Loury, Carlos Carvalho, and Richard Lowery) from 2020-10-26T23:11:50
Glenn critiques attempts to make race a part of academic hiring ... "Optics equality" and the denial of group differences ... Improving low-income primary schools ... Topics on which you can't...
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What Killed Michael Brown? (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-10-19T04:13:37
A tribute from an Israeli fan and a mea culpa from John ... The political influence of Ice Cube and Kanye West ... Shelby Steele’s new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... Appeals to Amer...
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Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? (Glenn Loury&Adaner Usmani) from 2020-10-15T00:58:11
Glenn on the persistence of racial inequality ... Adaner on the persistence of racial inequality ... Determinism vs. individual moral judgment ... Is structural racism a real thing? ... Can exh...
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The Meritocracy Trap (Glenn Loury&Daniel Markovits) from 2020-10-05T22:08:41
Daniel's book, The Meritocracy Trap ... Daniel: Meritocracy props up medical innovation at the expense of health ... Examining meritocracy in economics departments ... Daniel says legal educatio...
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Get Educated (Glenn Loury&Ian Rowe) from 2020-09-29T22:43:07
Ian's path from engineering to educational entrepreneurship ... Ian rebuts the "corporate type" charge ... "1776 Unites," an alternative narrative to the 1619 Project ... Glenn presents a cons...
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Chronicling the Race (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-09-25T01:42:29
BLM and the looming threat of political violence ... Can social justice movements redefine what counts as “knowledge”? ... Sympathy and objectivity in ethnographic writing ... Remembering Stanle...
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Recalibrating Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury&Peter Arcidiacono) from 2020-09-18T13:14:04
Peter: "Mismatch theory" is not a front for racial prejudice ... The problem of data transparency and affirmative action ... Who gets access to affirmative action data? ... Repairing the “brok...
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Discrimination at Harvard? (Glenn Loury&Peter Arcidiacono) from 2020-09-10T23:33:59
Peter's controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors ... Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum? ... Peter's work on the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminate...
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The End of Wokeness (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-09-01T22:58:09
John detects a burgeoning pushback against racial wokeness ... The anti-racist “bluff” ... Glenn: Most Americans agree with Trump’s defenses of the police ... Comparing the 1963 March on Washin...
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The Rare and Elusive Conservative Academic (Glenn Loury&Steven Teles) from 2020-08-29T00:51:57
The complex heterogeneity of Black American politics ... Why are there so few conservatives in academia? ... Is there any hope of attracting more of them? ... Glenn proposes the creation of a C...
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Police Defunding and Its Discontents (Glenn Loury&Peter Moskos) from 2020-08-24T15:03:14
Peter: The police aren’t hated, but politicians are listening to the haters ... What is driving rising violent crime rates in NYC? ... The problem of discussing racial disparities in crime and p...
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Crises in Chicago (Glenn Loury&Richard Epstein) from 2020-08-20T03:09:34
The two crises in Chicago ... Richard: "The quarantines are overdoing it" ... Richard's critique of clinical trials for pharmaceuticals ... The recent looting in Chicago ... A classical libera...
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The Economics of Covid Management (Glenn Loury&Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2020-08-14T16:27:38
The feasibility of group testing for Covid ... Is Trump responsible for inadequate testing? ... Larry: The government should fund companies developing rapid home testing ... Critiquing the FDA’s...
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The Politics of School Reopenings (Glenn Loury&Michele Kerr) from 2020-08-09T00:48:17
Why Michele thinks schools shouldn't have closed ... Are teachers’ unions bad for students? ... Glenn: Teachers are almost certainly not a high-risk group ... Is the school reopening fight abo...
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The IQ Taboo (Glenn Loury&Amy Wax) from 2020-07-31T18:34:03
Debating Charles Murray’s new book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class ... Amy: It is an undeniable fact that there are IQ differences between whites and blacks ... Do group ...
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The Dark Arts (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-07-23T23:51:32
John on "a truly medieval moment" ... Why Glenn didn't sign the Harper's open letter ... Linguists petition against fellow linguist Steven Pinker ... Is this actually just about the economics ...
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Braver Angels (Glenn Loury&John Wood, Jr.) from 2020-07-09T22:00:14
John explains how the current national crisis came to be ... Is civic discourse dead? ... Glenn: We are sliding into a state where the basic preconditions of society are at question ... Is Ameri...
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The Unraveling (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-07-04T22:00:48
John: White Fragility is "one of the worst books ever written" ... Debating how we should remember Woodrow Wilson ... Glenn: Our story is about more than just domination and oppression ... On ...
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A Life in History (Glenn Loury&David Kaiser) from 2020-06-30T03:00:50
David's memoir, A Life in History ... David: Political history is being ignored in the academy ... Defending the Western model ... Did the Vietnam War spark a turn away from Enlightenment valu...
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Black Faces, Black Interests (Glenn Loury&Carol M. Swain) from 2020-06-23T17:46:16
How Glenn and Carol first met ... Carol's 1993 book, Black Faces, Black Interests ... Would Stacey Abrams have won if she were pro-life? ... Carol's journey to Christianity ... Carol's prescie...
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Dropping the Mask (Glenn Loury&Coleman Hughes) from 2020-06-18T18:07:11
Coleman's post-collegiate life (with a cameo from Glenn's wife) ... Reopening and the invisible cost of agreeing with Trump ... Thomas Sowell's thoughts on partisanship ... Glenn: Trump is "bum...
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The Viruses (Glenn Loury&John McWhorter) from 2020-06-10T22:55:33
John: George Floyd's murder was not an exclusively racial matter ... Glenn: "We're in the grip of hysteria" ... John: Apparently anti-racism trumps even medical science ... What it's like bein...
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Teaching Under Lockdown (Glenn Loury&Michele Kerr) from 2020-06-08T20:13:33
Was the pandemic lockdown overkill? ... How Michele transitioned her high school students to distance learning ... Michele: We changed the rules on our students ... The “herd mentality” opposing...
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A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation (Glenn Loury&Joshua Cohen) from 2020-06-04T03:52:53
Josh: This is a more dangerous moment than any I can remember ... Was George Floyd lynched? ... Glenn views police abuse as a universal problem and fears racialized backlash ... Josh worries ab...
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Cops and Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-05-29T04:04:28
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis ... Is crime a moral failing? ... Glenn: "Black people in poor cities need the cops" ... The Central Park birder incident ... Meditating on the tears...
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Affirmative Action for Americans? (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax) from 2020-05-18T21:12:39
Amy wants to starve the higher ed beast ... Do Americans need affirmative action for graduate school? ... Glenn and Amy criticize undergraduate instruction ... Amy: "There's a certain degree of...
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The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas (Glenn Loury & Michael Pack) from 2020-05-11T22:35:29
Michael's new documentary, Created Equal: Justice Thomas in His Own Words ... Is some of the criticism of Thomas from the left racist? ... Why isn't he celebrated in the black community? ... Th...
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The 1619 Project's Pulitzer (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-05-06T18:39:09
Nikole Hannah-Jones wins a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project ... Glenn: This is "a desperate struggle for dignity" in the face of black failure ... Self-hatred and patronization ... Glenn: A b...
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The Science of the Virus (Glenn Loury & C. Brandon Ogbunu) from 2020-05-04T20:25:17
Brandon explains what a coronavirus is ... Where the virus came from ... Evaluating the "laboratory escape" theory ... The path to an effective vaccine ... Brandon: We have not been alarmist...
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The Pandemic in Prisons (Glenn Loury & Josiah Rich) from 2020-04-30T23:45:04
Jody describes what it's like inside his hospital ... How an outbreak in a prison could overwhelm the local hospital system ... Jody: "Most people don't need to be locked up, and don't need to b...
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The Policy Response to the Pandemic (Glenn Loury, Harold Pollack, and Steven Teles) from 2020-04-27T22:08:05
How would the late Mark Kleiman have viewed the policy response to the pandemic? ... The democratic legitimacy of the administrative state ... Glenn: Policy experts can't determine human values ...
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Islands of Excellence (Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.) from 2020-04-21T22:28:54
How Bob joined and eventually split with the civil rights movement ... Critiquing the government bureaucracy of the American welfare state ... Bob: Affirmative action has been exploited by midd...
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Race and the Virus (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-04-14T21:42:16
John on being at Covid ground zero in Queens ... The many racial disparities the pandemic has made plain ... But after the disparities are acknowledged, now what? ... Differences in life expec...
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Corona Taboos (Glenn Loury & Wilfred Reilly) from 2020-04-10T22:14:45
Wilfred's new book, Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About ... The view of corona from Western Kentucky ... Wilfred: A universal shutdown doesn't make sense... ... ...instead we need random sero...
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A Better Way (Glenn Loury & Danielle Allen) from 2020-04-06T21:30:55
Applying just war theory to the pandemic ... Danielle's three options: "freeze," "surrender," and "mobilize and transition" ... There's never been a vaccine for a coronavirus ... How Danielle's...
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Gimme Shelter (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-03-30T22:17:12
John reports on sheltering in place in NYC ... Race and the coronavirus ... Is calling the disease the "China virus" xenophobic? ... John wants President Cuomo ... Glenn: "You go to the crisis...
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Your Money or Your Life (Glenn Loury & Harold Pollack) from 2020-03-26T01:41:38
Personal finance during a public health emergency ... Harold: No one totally understands the US economy ... Social isolation and emotional support ... Thought experiment: 600K deaths vs. a mass...
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Coronavirus and Inequality (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi) from 2020-03-24T00:37:33
Rajiv: Testing is the key to defeating coronavirus ... How do we know if we're overreacting to the virus? ... Considering credit forbearance ... Rajiv argues for public banking through the Fe...
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The Economics of Coronavirus (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2020-03-19T21:42:46
Why quarantine is not enough ... Larry's proposal for a universal mandatory testing regime ... Glenn pushes back on Larry's plan on economic and libertarian grounds ... Is inflation coming? ...
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A Corona Contrarian (Glenn Loury & Heather Mac Donald) from 2020-03-17T21:10:47
Heather argues that we are overreacting to the coronavirus ... Heather: "Everyone should be a capitalist in a pandemic" ... Public goods and exponential growth ... Grading the Trump administra...
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Trump vs. COVID-19 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-03-13T21:35:28
How COVID-19 is affecting Glenn and John’s semester ... The mass psychology of coronavirus-inspired shutdowns ... Glenn: The social justice implications of the virus are legitimate ... Will Trum...
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Anti-Semitism, Israel-Palestine, and Bernie (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry) from 2020-03-03T23:52:18
The recent spike in assaults on ultra-Orthodox Jews in NYC ... Is anti-Semitism or something else the root cause? ... Bob: The demonization of Israeli Jews has filtered down ... Are liberal Jew...
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The Case for Charter Schools (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe) from 2020-02-29T00:13:20
Ian describes the charter school network he runs ... How teachers are treated in charters vs. in public schools ... Ian rebuts the charge that charters cherrypick their students ... Why Ian's sc...
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Looking Back (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi) from 2020-02-20T04:43:54
Glenn's landmark 1977 paper, "A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences" ... Glenn's theory of "relations before transactions" ... Critics accused Glenn of "flirting with the idea of black ...
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Immigration and Race (Glenn Loury, Ernesto Cortés, Jr., and Peter Skerry) from 2020-02-11T06:47:57
Do blacks and Latinos have aligning interests? ... Ernesto: Immigrants have an irrational belief in the American dream ... Debating the benefits of immigration ... Can universal health care and...
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Revisiting the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-02-03T05:29:54
John: The central claim of the NYT's 1619 Project "simply isn't true" ... Glenn offers a defense of the Project's perspective ... What the Constitution's three-fifths clause really meant ... J...
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The Souls of Yellow Folk (Glenn Loury & Wesley Yang) from 2020-01-31T02:36
Wesley's new book of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk ... The meaning of Andrew Yang as an Asian American ... Ivy League admissions, intermarriage, and Harvard's "personality scores" ... Wesle...
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What Does MLK Day Mean Now? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2020-01-21T20:13:09
John: The racial conversation has improved over the past decade ... Decrying the "racism" explanation when black people don't succeed in a given field ... Glenn: "You're the weakest sister at t...
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Critiquing "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Glenn Loury & Scott Gerber) from 2020-01-13T21:43:35
Is impeachment justified? ... Summarizing Corey Robin's new book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas ... Scott: Robin doesn't understand Thomas's actual constitutional interpretation ... Critiquing ...
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The New Culture Wars (Glenn Loury & Meghan Daum) from 2020-01-04T00:59:55
What's new about the culture wars? ... Meghan: "White women are the new white men" ... Reacting vs. responding ... Meghan: Gen Xers had the advantage of second-wave feminist childhoods ... Me...
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Crime, Justice, and Reform (Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos) from 2019-12-23T23:14:45
Peter explains how stop-and-frisk went too far ... Who or what deserves credit for NYC's massive murder decline? ... Peter: Reducing poverty is not the way to reduce crime ... Are cops reaping t...
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What Should Be Out of Bounds? (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright) from 2019-12-19T05:20:40
Bob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv ... Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem ... Speech policing, the "n-word," and the uses of ridicule ... What's Trump's executi...
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Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case, Part Two (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-12-11T04:06:57
Glenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax ... Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator's conspiracy theories ... John: The public didn't get the ful...
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Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-12-06T21:42:44
George Zimmerman sues a bunch of people for $100 million ... Rightwing filmmaker Joel Gilbert's The Trayvon Hoax ... Gilbert's past conspiracy theorizing ... An age of fake news and relativism ...
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Who Really Pays Taxes? (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2019-11-30T05:27:51
Does the US tax system favor the rich? ... Why spending is more equally distributed than wealth ... How Larry makes his calculations ... How billionaires can avoid paying taxes ... Larry: We ...
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The Economics of Fighting Climate Change (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff) from 2019-11-20T03:57:17
Critiquing William Nordhaus's work on the economics of climate change ... Larry: My plan for carbon taxation is a win-win ... Can elderly voters who don't care about the future be won over? ......
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The Free Market, Impeachment, and NeverTrumpers (Glenn Loury & Steven Teles) from 2019-11-14T04:52:47
The Niskanen Center's defense of a "free-market welfare state" ... Hidden ways the government obstructs the free market ... Why a wealth tax probably wouldn't work ... Steve's ambivalence abou...
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"It's Hard to Be an Individual" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-11-08T00:32:08
Buzzwords vs. the power of reason ... College students stay silent instead of saying the wrong thing ... Why cultural appropriation is such a flashpoint ... John: "It's hard to be an individual...
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Debating the Case for "Black Optimism" (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes) from 2019-10-25T00:34:21
Coleman's new essay, "The Case for Black Optimism" ... Does it make sense to compare blacks and whites in terms of progress? ... Glenn presents the counterargument ... Coleman detests that blac...
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Back and Still Black (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-10-11T21:49:55
Glenn wants to hear more before supporting impeachment ... John: "Does it not bother you that your country is being run by an idiot?" ... Is Trump a truer tribune of the people than Obama? ... ...
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Truth, Justice, and Racial Equality (Edmund Santurri & Glenn Loury) from 2019-10-03T01:31:12
What does it mean to be a black conservative? ... Why Glenn's views on affirmative action have shifted back and forth ... What happens if affirmative action is eliminated? ... Glenn critiques t...
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A Politics of Humility, Forgiveness, and Love (Glenn Loury & John Wood, Jr.) from 2019-09-23T23:24:04
Is polarization a problem to be solved with "water or fire"? ... If Trump wins reelection, will national reconciliation be possible? ... How John's biography prepared him for this work ... L...
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A Critical Look at the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-09-12T01:41:20
Critiquing the NYT's series on American slavery, the 1619 Project ... Why did this package come out now? ... Are today's racial disparities a "predictable" result of slavery? ... The imaginary ...
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The Life and Times of Glenn Loury (Robert Wright & Glenn Loury) from 2019-09-06T23:23:27
Glenn wrestles with the problem of self-regard as he writes his memoir ... "I was a liberal before I was a conservative before I was a liberal before I was a conservative" ... The secret life Gle...
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Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi) from 2019-08-30T02:55:42
Rajiv's new book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice ... Are stereotypes rational? ... Glenn on the stereotypes inherent in "The Talk" ... The community view vs. t...
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The Case of Roland Fryer (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-08-20T02:59:56
The sexual harassment charges against Harvard economist Roland Fryer ... Glenn: Fryer is a victim of the flawed Title IX regime ... John: "Roland has been railroaded" ... Why Fryer's black colle...
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Immigration, Assimilation, and Western Culture (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax) from 2019-08-13T03:11:52
A review of Amy’s recent troubles at Penn Law ... Amy: We need facts in order to speak critically about affirmative action ... Why Amy does not use the word “inferior” in reference to racial disp...
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Biden, Trump, and Sharpton (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-08-06T01:35:12
Why Biden is getting a bad rap on race ... John: "Our smarter white people are 'woker' than most black people" ... Why doesn't a Democratic candidate push back? ... Does Trump want us to call hi...
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A Love Letter to Big Business (Glenn Loury & Tyler Cowen) from 2019-07-31T02:22:03
Tyler's new book, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero ... The case against splitting up the big tech companies ... Tyler: CEOs largely deserve their high pay ... Is campaign fin...
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Remembering Mark Kleiman (Glenn Loury & Mark Kleiman) from 2019-07-24T05:25:21
Glenn remembers Mark, who passed away on Sunday ... Glenn and Mark talk crime and punishment ... Mark: Few people in social services consider crime prevention to be part of their mission ... Gle...
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Special Crossover Edition (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Glenn Loury) from 2019-07-23T00:14:35
Affirmative action and the college admissions scandal ... Jock and Man at Yale ... What money can't (and can) buy ... Considering class-based affirmative action ... Does it matter that Trump i...
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Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes) from 2019-07-09T21:21:20
Coleman’s essay, “Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap” ... Is America’s present-day wealth built on slavery? ... Coleman: People attribute too much causal power to racist policies ....
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This Is Your Life (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) from 2019-07-06T00:55:03
John's next two books, a history of English and a book on profanity ... Who is hurt when we violate language taboos? ... Glenn on writing his memoir: "The truth hurts" ... Three key turning poi...
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