In the rollicking new episode of Lexman, the artificial intelligence hosts a hilarious conversation with Glenn Loury, a widely-respected political thinker and professor at Brown University. The discussion centered around Loury's new book, The Impassible Mind: A Contribution to African-American Intellectual History. In it, Loury challenges the common conception of academia as an ivory tower, arguing instead that most academics are open to new ideas and even more impassible in the face of controversy. This contrarian attitude likely comes from growing up in a family of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi, an experience that had a profound