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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

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The Glenn Show episodes:

04.26.2024
Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis
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 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway 4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions...
04.19.2024
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 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying...
04.12.2024
Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex
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...
04.11.2024
A Message from Glenn
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...
04.05.2024
John McWhorter and Keith Ellison – Prosecuting Derek Chauvin
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...
04.03.2024
March 2024 Q&A
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...
03.29.2024
Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law
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 The charges Amy faces at Penn 4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself...
03.22.2024
John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race
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 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West 3:32 John’s awards show allergy 6:41 The realness of...
03.15.2024
Matthew Martens – A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform
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 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice 5:28 Loving the criminal offender 8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of...
03.08.2024
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...
03.01.2024
John McWhorter & Shane Hachey – Crime and Disorder in Minneapolis
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 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me 6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial? 16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for...
02.23.2024
Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago
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 Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy 3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes...
02.18.2024
Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode]
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 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics 7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era...
02.16.2024
John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered
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’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue? 7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis, Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John...
02.09.2024
Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus
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 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses 4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine 9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a...
02.04.2024
Noam Dworman – Friendship in a Time of War (Bonus Episode)
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 Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel 5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve 8:49...
02.02.2024
John McWhorter – Is DEI on Its Way Out?
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 John: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin 6:50 Has DEI taken a hit...
01.26.2024
David Kaiser – States of the Union
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 The many, many books of David Kaiser 3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong...
01.19.2024
Ilya Shapiro, Robert George & Randall Kennedy – Clarence Thomas: Black American Icon
Preorder Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative wherever you buy your books. If you missed Wednesday’s City Journal and Manhattan Institute-hosted livestream, I’ve got you covered. Today I’m releasing the recording of that livestream as a special bonus episode....
01.15.2024
John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK
0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative 2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) 8:59 A ringing endorsement from John 10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean...
01.12.2024
Omer Bartov – Israel's Hard Right Turn
0:00 The long road leading to the Gaza War 9:14 Don’t Palestinians have some responsibility for the current state of affairs? 9:48 The precedent of the 1973 Yom Kippur War 11:26 Omer: Israel only negotiates under pressure 13:31 Netanyahu and...
01.05.2024
John McWhorter – The Best of Glenn and John 2023
I had planned to release the first Glenn and John episode of 2024 on New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and John and I could not record as scheduled. So instead, my staff put together this collection of...
12.29.2023
Philip Howard – Getting Unions Out of Government
0:00 Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery 2:26 Philip’s skepticism toward the role of lawyers in the US 4:34 What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? 6:59 How to ensure worker safety without “4,000 rules” 8:07 Why...
12.22.2023
John McWhorter, Liz Collin & JC Chaix – Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd
0:00 How Liz and JC came to collaborate on their doc, The Fall of Minneapolis 4:18 JC: No, the footage in the doc is not AI-manipulated 6:08 How much of the body cam footage is previously unseen? 8:18 Who lied...
12.22.2023
Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - UNRESTRICTED
As you may be aware, YouTube restricted this week’s episode of The Glenn Show to viewers 18 and older. My team and I determined that the reason for this restriction was the inclusion of footage and imagery taken from the...
12.15.2023
Tabia Lee – An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out
0:00 Tabia’s early career as a teacher 5:40 Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director 17:06 The antisemitism problem at De Anza 25:25 The inescapable BIPOC binary 28:52 From disagreement to deplatforming 35:30 Why Tabia found support among students but...
12.08.2023
John McWhorter – The Truth about George Floyd's Death
0:00 A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions 5:42 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death 14:27 The price of a “poetic truth” 20:09 Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict?...
12.06.2023
November 2023 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer Substack subscriber questions from November 2023.
12.01.2023
Erec Smith – Free Black Thought
0:00 Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? 13:34 Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought 15:07 Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee 22:47 Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec...
11.24.2023
John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner & Tyler Austin Harper – The Gaza War and the Crisis of Liberalism
0:00 The state of campus speech after 10/7 5:48 Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? 15:43 “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas 26:17 Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed...
11.19.2023
Robert Wright – The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists (Bonus Episode)
0:00 How Bob gave Glenn his start in podcasting 2:05 Is the Gaza War in Israel’s best interests … 11:46 … and if not, what should Israel have done in response to October 7? 18:06 How Hamas gained control of...
11.17.2023
Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap
0:35 A quick announcement 1:46 What led Yascha to write about identity 6:22 An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” 12:15 What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? 19:15 From postmodernism to post-civil rights 28:45 The three key claims of identity synthesis...
11.10.2023
Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia
0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century 6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions 11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? 16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution 26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution...
11.08.2023
October 2023 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer subscriber questions.
11.03.2023
John McWhorter – Thinking Through the Gaza War
0:00 Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist 6:11 Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism 12:46 There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. 17:08 Glenn: We’re standing on...
10.27.2023
John Mearsheimer – America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine
0:00 Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational 6:55 How small states deal with world powers 10:13 If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? 16:40 John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to...
10.20.2023
John McWhorter & Coleman Hughes – The Colorblindness Controversy and Israel-Hamas
0:00 The blowback from Coleman’s TED Talk 8:50 Did TED intentionally throttle promotion for Coleman’s talk? 17:08 John’s trouble with TED while promoting Woke Racism 20:21 Coleman’s forthcoming book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a...
10.13.2023
Randall Kennedy & Renu Mukherjee – A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross
0:00 Introduction by Greg Burnep 4:27 What does affirmative action mean in 2023? 11:06 Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” 18:21 Diversity’s double-talk 31:18 Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? 34:33 Glenn: Affirmative action distracts...
10.11.2023
September 2023 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer subscriber questions.
10.06.2023
John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal
0:00 What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? 3:31 Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist 12:08 CRT’s racial power-grab 18:06 Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? 23:10 Disguising failure as victimology...
09.29.2023
Sabrina Salvati & LaJuan Loury – Dems Take Fire from the Left
0:00 How Sabby got her start on YouTube 6:18 What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? 11:31 Is the US sliding into fascism? 19:26 The tension between race and class on the left 27:15 Donald Trump’s rising popularity among...
09.22.2023
John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – How the Race Game Is Played
0:00 Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” 6:30 Affirmative action in spirit and practice 13:18 Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? 19:17 The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action 22:47 Re-weighting and...
09.15.2023
Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation
0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives 7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact 13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality 23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating 29:56 Are we heading back...
09.08.2023
John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?
0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? 9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John 17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times 22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead...
09.06.2023
August 2023 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com
09.01.2023
Carol Swain – The Adversity of Diversity
0:00 Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump 9:59 Why should black people support Trump? 16:31 Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election 26:07 Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? 30:35 The redefinition of white supremacy 35:51 Deracializing the crime...
08.25.2023
John McWhorter – Sixteen Years of "The Black Guys"
0:00 A sixteen-year-long conversation 5:45 Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era 21:19 The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization 32:56 Glenn pulls rank 37:59 Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute 50:15 Is the...
08.18.2023
Haim Shweky – An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front
0:00 Haim’s history with The Glenn Show 7:54 How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine 17:42 The legionnaire’s lingua franca 27:55 Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine 42:27 A pen in one hand and a gun in the other...
08.11.2023
John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness
0:00 The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness 10:47 Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? 21:08 Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems 28:02 How Ian experienced his own cancelation ...
08.09.2023
July 2023 Q&A
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The Glenn Show episodes:

Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis

John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater

Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex

A Message from Glenn

John McWhorter and Keith Ellison – Prosecuting Derek Chauvin

March 2024 Q&A

Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law

John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race

Matthew Martens – A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform

Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs

John McWhorter & Shane Hachey – Crime and Disorder in Minneapolis

Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago

Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode]

John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered

Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus

Noam Dworman – Friendship in a Time of War (Bonus Episode)

John McWhorter – Is DEI on Its Way Out?

David Kaiser – States of the Union

Ilya Shapiro, Robert George & Randall Kennedy – Clarence Thomas: Black American Icon

John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK

Omer Bartov – Israel's Hard Right Turn

John McWhorter – The Best of Glenn and John 2023

Philip Howard – Getting Unions Out of Government

John McWhorter, Liz Collin & JC Chaix – Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd

Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - UNRESTRICTED

Tabia Lee – An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out

John McWhorter – The Truth about George Floyd's Death

November 2023 Q&A

Erec Smith – Free Black Thought

John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner & Tyler Austin Harper – The Gaza War and the Crisis of Liberalism

Robert Wright – The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists (Bonus Episode)

Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap

Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia

October 2023 Q&A

John McWhorter – Thinking Through the Gaza War

John Mearsheimer – America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine

John McWhorter & Coleman Hughes – The Colorblindness Controversy and Israel-Hamas

Randall Kennedy & Renu Mukherjee – A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross

September 2023 Q&A

John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal

Sabrina Salvati & LaJuan Loury – Dems Take Fire from the Left

John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – How the Race Game Is Played

Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation

John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?

August 2023 Q&A

Carol Swain – The Adversity of Diversity

John McWhorter – Sixteen Years of "The Black Guys"

Haim Shweky – An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front

John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness

July 2023 Q&A

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