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 middle-class blacks   ... Black achievement during the century after the Civil War  ... Glenn asks, "what is to be done?"   ... Bob: "I don't have any choice but to be optimistic"  ... Glenn: "Black people ought not to be taught to hate our country"  ... 

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

Islands of Excellence (Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.)

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

Society & Culture

Personal Journals

History

Philosophy

Places & Travel

News

Politics

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 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 

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

John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin 5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy 9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats 17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech? 21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex 28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect 35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook 42:04 What you can’t say about war 45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests 55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition 1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy Recorded March 21, 2024 Links and Readings Michael’s Substack, Public University of Austin Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium The WPATH Files John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism” John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment” Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson 

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

Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex

A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.  

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

A Message from Glenn

PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS 4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts 9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first 13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists 16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior 21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution 27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools 35:19 The redlining debate 40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct 44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb” 46:38 What’s causing low police morale? 50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden 55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse today Recorded March 30, 2024 Links and Readings Keith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence Glenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis Glenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix Glenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentary Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One” Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two” Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three” Radley Balko’s response to Coleman Hughes Alpha News Rucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments” John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism” Equal Justice Initiative website 

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

John McWhorter and Keith Ellison – Prosecuting Derek Chauvin

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com

Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A; session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.

Islands of Excellence (Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.)

Download our free app to listen on your phone