Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs

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 What makes an “elite”? 4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood 7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption 12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force 17:23 The uses of military discipline 22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman at Yale 24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital 29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police? 35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee 40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding 46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon 52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative” 58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction Recorded February 19, 2024 Links and Readings Rob’s memoir, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob’s Substack Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less” Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford” Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"

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