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0:55 The myth of a secret black language

6:36 The terror of slavery in James

12:13 Essential fictions

15:45 Ground News ad

17:30 Liberal panic over Trump and DOGE

24:10 Is NYC mayor Eric Adams under Trump’s thumb?

26:54 Glenn: What’s wrong with telling illegal migrants to leave?

33:40 ACTA ad

35:54 The differing challenges of European and American immigration

44:08 The significance of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance

52:17 What’s wrong with Ye?

Recorded February 16, 2025

Links and Readings

John’s latest NYT column, “The Truth and the Fiction of Black English”

Percival Everett’s novel, James

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye

Allan Gurganus’s novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Francis Burney’s novel, Evelina

R.F. Kuang’s novel, Babel, or, the Necessity of Violence

Gil-Scot Heron’s song, “Whitey on the Moon”

Tucker Carlson interviews Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

John’s book, All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America

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Glenn and John take questions from Substack subscribers in this Q&A episode.

1:02 Pat Rimell presents a list of propositions about general poverty in urban communities

17:54 Samuel D. James asks if John has any writing advice

23:35 Tom Wojciaczyk wants to know if what the difference is between an accent and pronunciation

30:50 Michael asks why we’re not more worried about Trump taking us back to the nuclear brinksmanship of the Cold War

39:03 Karen Dawn Norris offers two defenses of reparations

43:34 Young Törless asks, since we use the term “blackness” so often, if we could come up with a definition of it that would satisfy such disparate figures as Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley, Condoleezza Rice, Raven-Symone, and Iman

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1:10 Which race-conscious programs stay and which go?

11:05 Ground News ad

12:42 Glenn: I’m afraid some African Americans might get left behind

19:25 More programs won’t address the problems of “the underclass”

27:49 John: Maybe this is the best it can be

31:22 The great benefits of HBCUs

35:35 ACTA ad

37:48 Ibram X. Kendi decamps for Howard

44:49 Studying the African diaspora

51:35 The passing of Belle da Costa Greene

1:02:29 Is colorism within the black community still an issue?

Recorded February 2, 2025

Links and Readings

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist

The Woodson Center

James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses

John’s NYT column, “Black and White Weren’t Always as Black-and-White as They Seem”

Hilton Als’s New Yorker piece, “The Hidden Story of J.P. Morgan’s Library”

Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom’s America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible

Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

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1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published

7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing

9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment

17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024

23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets?

31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008

35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists

39:26 Secular backsliding in India

43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive order

Recorded January 25, 2025

Links and Readings

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover”

James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Glenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorship

Glenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality”

Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversation

Rajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment”

Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat”

Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit”

John Cochrane’s review of Late Admissions

Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution

Gyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, Kismet

Rajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice

In this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference.

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1:08 Intros

4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign

9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings

15:31 Ground News ad

17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy?

23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war

30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold?

33:28 ACTA ad

38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war

48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US?

52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war

56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent?

1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora

1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war?

1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025

Links and Readings

Trailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking History

Matthew’s YouTube show, History Speaks

Airwars

Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report

Yuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza”

Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets”

Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza”

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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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