The Glenn Show

By Glenn Loury

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury.

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The podcast currently has 712 episodes available.

The Glenn Show episodes:

January 15, 2021 Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 3 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
The three books that pushed Glenn away from the right ... A crisis of identity: who is Glenn Loury and what is his project? ... Glenn's left-leaning moderatism and work in the 90s ... The link between Glenn's economic work and his social theory ... The evolution of Glenn's perspective on Obama ... The Iraq War, the 2008 crash, and how "the elites failed us" ... The current and future state of the American university ...

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1h 25min
January 01, 2021 Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Glenn's rightward shift in the early 80s ... A feeling of alienation from the Black elite ... Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the "American empire" ... Glenn's emergence as a public intellectual ... How Glenn earned a unique place in public discourse ... Glenn's hiatus from and return to economic theory ... How Glenn helped coin the term "social capital" ...

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1h 13min
December 25, 2020 Who's Afraid to Debate Glenn Loury? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Why won't Jones, Kendi, and others come on the Glenn Show? ... The need for more discussions between black intellectuals who disagree ... The dilemma faced by contrarian black intellectuals ... John and Glenn ponder their niche ... What can't be said about race ... Will we see a more honest discourse on race after Trump? ... John explores the current controversy at the Dalton School in NYC ...

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1h 7min
December 18, 2020 Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 1 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
A working-class undergrad with a job, a wife, and two kids ... Why Glenn was drawn to economics ... How studying economics shaped Glenn's politics ... Anti-Semitism at Harvard and the origins of MIT economics ... Why Glenn believes in meritocracy ... Glenn discusses his influential early work ...

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1h 16min
December 11, 2020 The Warm Cloak of Victimhood (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Coleman Hughes named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" ... The predictable platitudes of John's critics ... The waning of wokeness ... Should Thomas Jefferson have known better? ... What is driving today's race crusaders? ... The denial of Black agency ... Nikole Hannah-Jones and the “1619 Riots” ...

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56min
December 04, 2020 The Dark Matter of Developmental Psychology (Glenn Loury & James Heckman)
The political landscape in Chicago in 2020 ... How do you improve a human being? ... What "The Bell Curve" missed about human development ... How teaching and empowering parents positively impacts children ... The taboo of family-focused anti-poverty efforts ... What is the source of implicit bias? ... James: Politicians on both sides cultivate and exploit racial turmoil ...

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1h 16min
November 27, 2020 Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Welcome to the Glenn Show 2.0 ... A path to forgiveness for the canceled ... John’s upcoming book and wokeism after Trump ... Why is it so easy to get away with junk sociology today? ... John speaks his mind on Ibram X. Kendi ... The mass delusion of the anti-racism movement ... What is required of public intellectuals? ...

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55min
November 23, 2020 Ibram X. Kendi and the problem with public intellectuals today (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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November 16, 2020 'Liberties,' a New Journal (Glenn Loury & Leon Wieseltier)
Leon's new journal Liberties and the current political climate ... Leon: Art "should not be subjected to a political standard" ... Glenn and Leon disagree on Trump ... Leon, an “unrepentant interventionist,” discusses foreign policy ... What's inside the first edition of Liberties? ... Leon defends the idea of Zionism ... America and Israel: two experiments in moving past anti-Semitism ... Thoughts on America's moment of racial reckoning ...

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1h 6min
November 09, 2020 The Creators of "What Killed Michael Brown?" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Steele, and Shelby Steele)
Glenn announces a new version of The Glenn Show ... Eli and Shelby's new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... "Why is it so hard to see the truth here?" ... Shelby: Post-'60s liberalism is the culprit ... What changed in black communities between 1950 and 1980? ... White guilt as a drug ... Eli: BLM had an agenda and was waiting for a tragedy to exploit ... Shelby: The solutions lie in old-fashioned values ... A father and son collaboration ...

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1h 19min

FAQs about The Glenn Show:

How many episodes does The Glenn Show have?

The podcast currently has 712 episodes available.