The Glenn Show

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  • Talking Blackface and 'Cancel Culture' (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
    John: Crowded NYC was an “uncivil” choice for Amazon ... Is climate change discourse motivated by contempt for capitalism? ... Moving on from the minstrel show ... Glenn and John: Northam shouldn’t have had to apologize ... Is it ever okay to wear black “costume”? ... Sexual aggression and consent, in detail ... John: Scandals like Covington are uniquely modern ...
    1 hr 4 min
  • Anatomist of Racial Inequality (Glenn Loury & Christian Gonzalez)
    What makes Glenn a “black conservative”? ... Glenn: The legacy of slavery is more complicated than we think ... Glenn’s thoughts on economist Thomas Sowell ... How to solve educational inequality ... Why labor competition between minorities matters ... What does Ta-Nehisi Coates mean by “reparations”? ... What is Glenn’s central goal in talking race? ...
    1 hr 7 min
  • The Great Recession, Ten Years Later (Glenn Loury & Ross Levine)
    How bankers were able to outsource investment risk prior to the financial crisis ... Ross: Financial collapse could have been foreseen, but warning signs were ignored ... Finance’s place in the economy and the lives of regular people ... Why investment banking executives need to have skin in the game ... Ross: Save the banks, not the bankers ... Ten years after the Great Recession, are we worse off? ... Does Elizabeth Warren have the right idea on banking regulation? ...
    58 min
  • The Big Con (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
    Larry's new paper on the financial crisis, "The Big Con" ... Challenging the standard story of what caused the Great Recession ... Larry on The Big Short: "Factually it's completely wrong" ... Larry: Banks should be run like mutual funds ... Glenn asks: Isn't leverage good? ... Larry's ideas for fixing the banking industry ...
    59 min
  • Talking Across the Divide (Glenn Loury & John Wood)
    How Better Angels fights political division with dialogue ... The Kavanaugh scandal viewed from both sides ... Is there an alternative to difficult conversations? ... Why Obama wasn’t the great unifier we needed ... John’s thoughts on racial identity politics and nationalism ... Is political division America’s fatal flaw? ... Malcolm or Martin? ...
    1 hr 3 min
  • What is Third-Wave Antiracism? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
    John’s latest in the Atlantic on contemporary racial discourse ... Is the psychology underlying racism the full story? ... What popular sociology gets wrong about black oppression ... This year’s pushback against “SJWs” ... How the “n-word” became taboo ... What does the racial disparity in school suspensions really mean? ...
    51 min
  • The Diversity Delusion (Glenn Loury & Heather Mac Donald)
    Heather MacDonald’s new book, The Diversity Delusion ... What is the "Ferguson effect"? ... Is "stop and frisk" the price to pay good law enforcement? ... Structural vs. individual explanations for racial disparities in crime ... Making sense of the academic skills gap ... Why student activists are rejecting the Western canon ... What’s the alternative to the Enlightenment? ... Heather questions the existence of a campus “rape culture” ... Differences between campus and workplace sexual assault ...
    1 hr 15 min
  • Race, Nationalism, and Marijuana (Glenn Loury & Matt Ward)
    Why is Glenn associated with the Intellectual Dark Web? ... Harvard and affirmative action ... How to make black students more competitive ... Will genetic engineering worsen income inequality? ... Is nationalism inherently white? ... Where science and political correctness meet ... Glenn’s thoughts on marijuana legalization ... Automation, universal basic income, and idle former workers ...
    1 hr 5 min
  • The Second Coming (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
    John on his recent controversial Glenn Show appearance ... Glenn reacts to seeing Hamilton on Broadway ... What's the future of heterodox black thought? ... Assessing the effect of Black Lives Matter ... Will race always be a central part of black people's self-conceptions? ... Glenn foretells the end of identity politics ...
    59 min

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