The Glenn Show

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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July 18, 2025 67 mins

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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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July 3, 2025 15 mins
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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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June 23, 2025 8 mins
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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...

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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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June 2, 2025 6 mins

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The Glenn Show will be taking a pause in the month of June. In this brief episode, Glenn explains why.



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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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May 14, 2025 17 mins
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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.

Check out thi...

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Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409

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0:00 Intro

1:10 Glenn meets the young Marx

2:32 The new wokeness of the political right

8:30 What is the democratic counterpart of foreign policy and national security run by experts?

17:0...

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In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on...

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0:00 Intro

1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without

9:50 Ground News ad

11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument

20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism

22:30 Reforming para-academic instit...

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