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In this post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.

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0:55 Peter’s new book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop

5:27 Why policing went off the rails over the last decade

11:03 Peter: I’m done with police abolitionists

19:22 Why don’t we hear about unarmed black men getting shot anymore?

22:00 Remembering the lessons of ‘90s New York

28:07 Dealing with the racial disparity problem

35:46 Is there a suicide problem among cops?

39:31 The Ferguson Effect

43:12 The utility of pretextual stops

48:29 The pride felt by the 1990s NYPD

50:30 What cops think of Darren Wilson and Derek Chauvin

Recorded January 10, 2025

Links and Readings

Peter’s forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop

Peter’s book, In Defense of Flogging

Peter’s book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District

Tracy Mears on police legitimacy and the future of policing

Heather Mac Donald’s book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer’s paper, “Policing the Police: The Impact of ‘Pattern-or-Practice’ Investigations on Crime”

In this post-show bonus episode with Nikita, Mark, and LaJuan, we talk about what's required of a black intellectual, shifting alliances and ideological orientations, and the utility of the police.

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I'm reposting an episode of the Invisible Men podcast, hosted by Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors. They had me on to talk about Late Admissions, the bias and development narratives, and a lot more. Ian and Nique have a stellar lineup of guests who are having the important conversations about race in America, so check them out at invisible.men. You can find video of this episode there or at my newsletter, https://glennloury.substack.com.

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0:00 Intro

1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain

2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”

9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse

12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”

19:17 Ground News ad

21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right

26:24 The hard truths of global competition

30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?

36:09 ACTA ad

38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status

44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline

46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?

Recorded January 5, 2025

Links and Readings

Charles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Matt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal style

Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship

Richard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

Trailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy

It may be cold outside, but the first Q&A of 2025 is a hot one. John and Glenn talk negotiating the modern mediasphere, the German language, education after affirmative action, code switching, social media and AI, and maintaining a friendship in spite of political differences.

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In retiring from academia, I'm giving up what was once a vital source of intellectual inspiration. How should I go about replacing it? I'm talking through the problem with Nikita and Mark.

In this bonus episode, I sit down with my son, Glenn Cartman Loury II, to talk about the big topics: life, death, and change. This is a heavy, real conversation. We “reminisce” about caring for Linda—my wife and Glenn’s mother—during the final stages of terminal cancer. We talk about who we were then, who we are now, and why we work so hard to change our lives. I’m seeking solace from my son, and true solace can only come from confronting reality, rather than turning away from it and taking refuge in comforting illusions.

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0:00 Intro

3:01 January 15, “Why Glenn wrote a memoir”

9:18 February 2, “The three dimensions of black conservatism”

15:50 Ground News ad

17:52 February 16, “Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?”

23:07 March 22, “What do we mean by 'colorblindness' today?”

34:39 April 5, “John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first”

37:40 May 17, “Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?”

41:53 ACTA ad

44:07 June 14, “Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center”

49:22 June 28, “Can John account for his 'emotional and irrational conclusions' about Trump and his recent conviction?”

59:35 August 16, “Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama”

1:05:08 August 28, “Vladimir X asks Glenn and John about Gaza”

1:18:19 October 11, “Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates's book is brilliant”

1:26:32 October 25, “John: Coates is a beautiful writer, BUT …”

1:28:54 November 4, “A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)”

1:35:47 November 22, “Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!”

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0:00 The uncertain future of AI

4:46 What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China?

8:15 The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence

12:01 The international policy challenges of AI

14:32 Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine?

18:46 Are there any good argument for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?

23:55 Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy

28:29 The continuing assault on Gaza

32:33 Antiwar speech codes

37:57 Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing

43:15 Missed opportunities to turn the temperature down in Israel

51:29 Bob: The international community has little sway over Israel

54:25 The advantages of cognitive empathy

Recorded December 17, 2024

Links and Readings

Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter

Nonzero on YouTube

Thomas Nagel’s essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

Bob’s most recent conversation with Thomas Friedman

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

Ilan Papé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Bob’s Nonzero essay, “The Truth about Hamas”

Bob’s 2002 Slate essay, “Was Arafat the Problem?”