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Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues.

Episódios

  • Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

    22/01/2024 Duração: 01h00s

    Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” ... What would King say to Claudine Gay? ... King's radicalism ... John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist ... The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College ... How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal ... Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard” ... How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up ... John’s upcoming cabaret show ...

  • Getting Unions Out of Government (Glenn Loury & Philip Howard)

    29/12/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery ... What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? ... Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust ... The problems of national security and public health ... Are public employee unions constitutional? ... Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” ... Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too ... Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case? ...

  • An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee)

    18/12/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Tabia’s early career as a teacher ... Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director ... The antisemitism problem at De Anza ... The inescapable BIPOC binary ... From disagreement to deplatforming ... Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty ... How attempts to silence Tabia backfired ... Tabia’s broad vision of diversity ... Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee ...

  • The Truth about George Floyd's Death (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

    08/12/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions ... John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? ... Glenn: George Floyd was no hero ... The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct ... Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? ... Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America? ...

  • What Black America Needs to Thrive (Glenn Loury & Erec Smith)

    04/12/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ... Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec ... How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community ... Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college ... What is rhetoric, anyway? ...

  • Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)

    29/11/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics ... The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams ... The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” ... The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding ... If not liberalism, then what? ... Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart ...

  • The Identity Trap (Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk)

    17/11/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha’s defense of universalism ...

  • An American Martyr in Persia (Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan)

    13/11/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution ... How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution ... The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran ... The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture ... The internal and external pressures on Iran ... The amorality of foreign policy ...

  • Thinking Through the Gaza War (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

    03/11/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. ... Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic ... John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict ... Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? ... Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? ... Glenn and John’s responsibilities as teachers ... What’s next on TGS ...

  • America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine (Glenn Loury & John Mearsheimer)

    30/10/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just ... The risk of escalation ... Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West ... Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? ... Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? ... American Russophobia didn’t cause the war, but it’s not helping ... John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal ... The foreign policy establishment’s grip on both Democrats and Republicans ...

  • A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee)

    13/10/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? ... Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems ... Affirmative action is an elite problem ... Affirmative action as an insurance policy ... The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries ... Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it’s time to stop ... Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action? ... Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions? ... Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education? ... Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university? ... Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action? ...

  • The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik)

    09/10/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? ... Disguising failure as victimology ... Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing ... The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal ... John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” ... Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine ... The shame of the Kendi scandal ...

  • Dems Take Fire from the Left (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Sabrina Salvati )

    29/09/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men ... The military-industrial complex and climate change ... Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops ... Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration ... Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another ... Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine” ... How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests ...

  • How the Race Game Is Played (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Tyler Austin Harper)

    22/09/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action ... Re-weighting and funding the admissions process ... How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? ... Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? ... Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity ... Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati ...

  • The Crucible of Desegregation (Glenn Loury & Shep Melnick)

    15/09/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Biden’s new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with claims that education is resegregating ... Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? ... Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education ... Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans ... Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy ...

  • Whose Election Narrative? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

    08/09/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry ... Is wokeness on the wane? ... What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain ... A Democrat by any other name ... John makes a wild prediction about Trump ...

  • The Adversity of Diversity (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain)

    03/09/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The redefinition of white supremacy ... Deracializing the crime debate ... Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World ... Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another ... Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson ... What affirmative action did right ...

  • What Were We Thinking in 2007? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

    25/08/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute ... Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? ...

  • An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front (Glenn Loury & Haim Shweky)

    19/08/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    Haim’s history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire’s lingua franca ... Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in the other ... Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected ... Is the two-state solution dead? ...

  • The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma)

    11/08/2023 Duração: 01h00s

    The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienced his own cancelation ... America’s exportation of wokeness ... Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? ... John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives ...

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