The Glenn Show
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 glennloury.substack.com
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It’s the middle of the summer, it’s hot, and John McWhorter and I are back for another Substack subscriber only Q&A session. In this episode, we take questions about leadership in the black community, critical listening, Percival Everett's novel James, immigration, white women studying black women's history, right-wing identity politics, ...
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In lieu of a regular episode this week, I’m presenting a version of our latest livestream. Last week we debuted what I hope will be an ongoing feature of these livestreams: viewer call-ins. Nikita has been working on setting this up for a while now, and as you’ll see, we’ve still go...
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0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence
2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative”
9:34 Ground News ad
11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason
19:33 The Loury family legacy
25:01 Does race still matter?
34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire
45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black community
51:42 Keep the funk, and die wi...
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0:00 Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC Democratic primaries
12:07 Ground News ad
14:05 The War on Terror and the War in Gaza
28:54 Should Trump fear Mamdani?
32:02 Glenn: Trump is running the table
42:26 John: Glenn, you’re getting caught up in the Trump Show
48:05 Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and the legacy of conservatism
53:56 Glenn’s encounters with Willian F. Buc...
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My latest book, Self-Censorship, is coming out in a couple weeks, and I’m excited to share it with you. As a kind of apéritif, Mark Sussman and I livestreamed our wide-ranging discussion of all things self-censorious. We talk about the book, of course, but also the economics of addi...
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0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument
6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”?
8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings
14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke
22:10 The comedian as gadfly
24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech?
31:23 Harvard Derangement Syndrome
37:13 FIR...
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I’m back with my creative director Nikita Petrov on our latest livestream. As you may know, Nikita is Russian. He’s spent some time in the US, but he’s still got a lot of questions about how we do things here and why. This was recorded the day before the Independence Day holiday, an...
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0:00 How Jens got interested in American gun violence
2:45 What’s “unexpected” about the origins of gun violence?
5:29 Race and the culture of gun violence
9:30 Ground News ad
11:20 Are high rates of gun violence a cultural issue or an equilibrium?
17:09 Is urban gun violence the result of rational behavior?
24:34 The link between Kahnemanian “fast thinking” and violent ...
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In my latest livestream with my editor Mark Sussman, we talk about the state of the academic labor market, teaching writing to undergrads, Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, the wisdom or folly of a federal minimum wage, the work of ...
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This month, John and I tackle questions about grade inflation, the Great Courses, Chapt GPT, race and public art, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine, the end of race-based affirmative action, Trump, Christopher Rufo, and my most recent appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show.
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Last week, I did my second ever livestream, this time with my editor here at the Substack, Mark Sussman. We covered a lot of ground: self-censorship in both intimate and public settings, the golden age of MIT, the death of the influential economist Stanley Fischer, political correct...
Last week we tried something new at TGS. I had a conversation with my lovely wife, LaJuan Loury, and my creative director, Nikita Petrov, live on three platforms at the same time: the TGS Youtube channel, the TGS Substack, and on Nikita’s Substack, Psychopolitica.
We went for two hours and covered a lot of ground: LaJuan and I reported on...
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The Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe
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0:00 Intro
1:25 The response to Glenn’s appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show
4:03 Are institutions like the University of Austin the future of higher ed?
11:31 Ground News ad
13:14 When social justice musicology came for John’s syllabus
17:42 What role should social justice play in academic study?
28:40 John’s trip to the National Museum of African American History ...
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency”
5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps
10:15 Solving the double-spending problem
15:58 The partisan divide on crypto
21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers
26:29 How crypto protocols create value
33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with wea...
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0:00 Intro
1:00 What is the “affirmative action myth”?
8:02 Black progress before and after affirmative action
11:41 Ground News ad
13:29 How far does Jason’s critique of affirmative action extend?
17:03 Contesting The Shape of the River
26:37 Respectability, responsibility, and upward mobility
32:40 Is Jason blaming the victims?
35:54 Jason: No one’s buying the reparation...
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In this installment of my monthly Q&A with John McWhorter, we tackle questions about elite universities and wealth, the value of DEI, Trump's expansion of executive power, The Great Gatsby, and ethics in higher education.
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0:00 Intro
00:31 Prefatory remarks
4:15 Glenn: The Trump administration’s defunding of the universities is mischievous in the extreme
9:06 Ground News ad
11:01 Doesn’t maintaining the preeminence of American universities require diversity of thought?
18:47 John McWhorter has entered the building
20:25 How did higher ed lose the general public’s support?
23:05 The u...
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In this bonus episode, I talk with my grandson Will Kelly about his weight-loss journey, which he is documenting on social media. We talk about his desire to live out loud, our family history of addiction issues, and his strategies for healthy, sustainable weight loss.
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