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Glenn Loury

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Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics at Brown University and Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute glennloury.substack.com

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John McWhorter & Jason Riley – The Affirmative Action Myth

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”? 8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action 11:41 Ground News ad 13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend? 17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River 26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility 32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims? 35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparations argument 43:26 How do figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones end up at the center of progressive discourse? Recorded May 7, 2025 Links and Readings Jason’s new book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed Jason’s book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Jason’s book, False Black Power Jason’s book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell Derek Bok and William G. Bowen’s book, The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind An Amos & Andy YouTube playlist Julia pilot episode Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations” Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist The NYT’s 1619 Project The Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites Project 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

47 min
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April 2025 Q&A

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby, and ethics in higher education.

18 min
9 MAY

Ross Levine – Trump's $150 Trillion Question

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Censorship-Glenn-C-Loury/dp/1509567402/ref=sr_1_1?crid=223KUFY8BN0X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ar6rmRPzp7pEiJss0o1eUeLbLwOgX_qrXHtWjMS3_m_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.goECGgv0OxAPgLR8kNnsISu5AK6OSVoa5qWVmqRNqwY&dib_tag=se&keywords=self-censorship+glenn+c.+loury&qid=1746808862&sprefix=self-censor%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1 Video Links 0:43 Ross: Trump's economic policies are the worst I've seen in my life 7:36 Glenn's new book, SELF-CENSORSHIP 12:00 Trump’s bid to become the most powerful person in the history of the world 21:17 The disruptive effects of tariffs, financial regulatory manipulation, and extraordinary debt levels 27:58 Ross: Alienating our allies is only going to strengthen China 33:41 Glenn: Those who lost out to globalization are getting their way 41:04 Will Trump heed economic warning signs? 48:10 Can Congress constrain Trump? Recorded April 19, 2025 Links and Readings Edward Luce’s Financial Times piece, “Trump, Truss, and the ‘Moron Premium’” Larry Kotlikoff’s Substack Larry Kotlikoff’s post, “30-Year TIPS Are Looking Mighty Attractive” Glenn’s most recent conversation with Larry Kotlikoff Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? 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

58 min
2 MAY

John McWhorter – Glenn and John Live at Brown University

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 00:31 Prefatory remarks 4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme 9:06 Ground News ad 11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought? 18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building 20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support? 23:05 The university’s role in public discourse 26:26 Was affirmative action a success or a failure? 31:36 The partisan balance in education funding 42:21 The costs and benefits of tenure 50:09 Can education preserve democracy if students aren’t doing the reading? 1:01:59 Are we irrevocably polarized as a nation? 1:07:28 Q&A: You don’t seem as excited by Trump as you once were. What is disappointing you? 1:11:40 Q&A: If higher ed serves society, why do so many elite grads use their degrees to get rich? 1:16:01 Q&A: How do you teach diversity to students who’ve never spent time around people different from them? 1:19:15 Q&A: What’s the difference between contrarianism and provocation? 1:21:23 Q&A: Should fewer people go to college? Recorded April 22, 2025 Links and Readings Michael Sandel’s book, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? John Stuart Mill’s book, On Liberty John Milton’a Areopagitica Alan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students John’s new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative The Great Courses Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolsty’s novel, War and Peace Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina Plato’s dialogue, The Republic 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

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Bonus Episode: Will Kelly – Posting My Way to a Better Life

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss. Check out this episode on Substack to see clips from Will's TikTok and instagram Follow Will on Instagram and TikTok

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Daniel Bessner – Managing American Decline in the Trump Era

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409 Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx 2:32 The new wokeness of the political right 8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts? 17:04 Russia’s motivations: Fear of NATO or imperial ambitions 21:41 Danny: Zelenskyy made a huge misstep in the Oval Office 26:12 Does China have global security ambitions? 35:09 Ending the Middle East’s post-Ottoman redefinition 39:42 Danny: It’s gotta be rough to be Peter Beinart 43:46 Why we don’t need Hitler to explain Trump’s authoritarianism 56:29 Danny: We’ve been in the midst of a constitutional crisis since the 1940s 57:58 Can the nuclear taboo hold? Recorded April 19, 2025 Links and Readings Danny’s podcast, American Prestige Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page’s paper, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens” Walter Lippmann’s book, Public Opinion Danny’s book, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual Transcript of Matt Lauer’s 1998 interview with Madeline Albright Paul Thomas Chamberlain’s book, The Cold War Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace Lindsey O’Rourke’s book, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning Glenn’s conversation with Peter Beinart Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Danny’s Jacobin piece, “This Is America” James Whitman’s book, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law Carl Schmitt’s book, The Concept of the Political 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

1 h 2 min
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Alex Shieh – Bloat at Brown University

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on campus. This bonus episode is available in its entirety to full subscribers, without whom The Glenn Show would not be possible. If you want to listen to the full version of this episode and our other bonus content—including monthly Q&As with John McWhorter—go to https://glennloury.substack.com and sign up.

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John McWhorter, Cornel West & Robert George – Truth, Faith, and Reason in an Age of Division

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, Self-Censorship. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai... Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without 9:50 Ground News ad 11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument 20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism 22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions 32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought? 39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism” 52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else 55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment 1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth 1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen Sondheim Recorded April 12, 2025 Links and Readings Robbie and Cornel’s new book, Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division Plato’s Republic Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Eugene Genovese’s book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Antonio Gramsci’s book, The Prison Notebooks William Blake’s poem, “London” Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et Ratio Genesis 22, King James Version Shakespeare’s Hamlet Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Mandy Patinkin sings “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George 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

1 h 18 min

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Honest debates about relevant topics

18/09/2016

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Glenn Loury is the most honest podcast host I can think of. He is able to debate extremely sensitive topics without ridiculing the other side, which is really uncommon these days. I must say, as a non-American, the race issues in US are a difficult topic for me to understand. Thank you Glenn for your great job approaching this topic. Looking forward to the next episode!