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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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Bonus Episode: Man of Steel

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this episode, Nikita, Mark, and I talk about steelmanning, what people want me to say about Gaza, what I want to say about Gaza, and why I offer disclaimers when I talk foreign policy.

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John McWhorter – War Comes to the Oval Office

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 Intro 1:55 Did Trump and Vance bully Zelenskyy or give him a dose of reality? 5:16 Glenn: Trump is trying to wind down an unnecessary war 13:49 - Ground News ad 28:58 The “deep game” of European security 32:06 Glenn: America First appeals to me, World War III doesn’t 36:40 Teaching the reparations debate in a post-October 7 world 43:06 MSNBC axes Joy Reid’s show Recorded March 1, 2025 Links and Readings Trump and Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting Tucker Carlson’s onstage interview with Hungarian president Victor Orbán The latest episode of Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast, America This Week Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations” 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

46 min
5 MAR

February 2025 Q&A

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this month's Substack subscriber Q&A, John and I answer your questions on the NAACP, Trump and January 6, Western civilization, how we deal with angry viewers, and more.

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4 MAR

Bonus Episode: War and/or Peace

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode, Mark, Nikita, and I discuss Trump's chaotic Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, parsing positions from principles, and the fate of Ukraine.

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2 MAR

Bonus Episode: Amy Wax – Amy Wax Pushes Back

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Today I'm posting a bonus episode of the Glenn Show with University of Pennsylvania Law professor Amy Wax. Unfortunately, Amy experienced some recording difficulties, which resulted in an episode that does not meet our usual standards for audio fidelity and clarity. Rather than post it here in the podcast feed, we've opted to post only the video with subtitles under Amy's side of the conversation. You can find that video right now by going to glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:00 A note on audio quality 1:08 Glenn: I may not agree with Amy about everything, but I defend her right to speak her mind 4:17 Amy: What’s wrong with Trump evaluating how federal research money is spent? 12:54 The accusations against Amy 19:17 Did Amy violate students’ privacy? 21:44 What it’s not okay to say at Penn 31:52 Amy’s lawsuit against Penn 36:21 Glenn: Aren’t your free speech claims and you civil rights claims contradictory? 38:33 Amy: This is bigger than me 42:11 Can university research infrastructure survive defunding under Trump? 48:32 Glenn: I’m unnerved by the implications of the anti-DEI movement Recorded February 17, 2025 Links and Readings The Harvard Salient magazine 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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28 FEB

Conn Carroll – The Assault on Marriage

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 1:00 Conn’s career in the conservative movement 4:34 The four sexual revolutions 14:17 What about feminism and LGBTQ rights? 20:25 Conn: “We spend over a trillion dollars a year on means-tested programs that punish marriage” 24:30 How online gambling is hurting working-class men 29:02 What are the benefits of marriage? 34:03 Why Conn thinks single-parenthood disproportionately harms boys 37:12 The link between political and domestic structures 44:49 Will Trump enact policies that promote marriage? 48:42 Conn: We should strengthen obscenity laws in order to restrain online porn 55:52 The conservative case for birthright citizenship Recorded February 11, 2025 Links and Readings Conn’s new book, Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage is Destroying Democracy David Blankenhorn’s book, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese’s report on pornography Conn’s Washington Examiner piece, “The Conservative Case for Birthright Citizenship” George Borjas’s books on labor and immigration 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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25 FEB

Bonus Episode: Empty Gestures

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode, Glenn, Nikita, and Mark discuss Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's alleged "Nazi salutes," whether Trump is serious about Canada and Greenland, and what counts as a serious question.

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21 FEB

John McWhorter – Liberal Panic over Trump

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:55 The myth of a secret black language 6:36 The terror of slavery in James 12:13 Essential fictions 15:45 Ground News ad 17:30 Liberal panic over Trump and DOGE 24:10 Is NYC mayor Eric Adams under Trump’s thumb? 26:54 Glenn: What’s wrong with telling illegal migrants to leave? 33:40 ACTA ad 35:54 The differing challenges of European and American immigration 44:08 The significance of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance 52:17 What’s wrong with Ye? Recorded February 16, 2025 Links and Readings John’s latest NYT column, “The Truth and the Fiction of Black English” Percival Everett’s novel, James Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye Allan Gurganus’s novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All Francis Burney’s novel, Evelina R.F. Kuang’s novel, Babel, or, the Necessity of Violence Gil-Scot Heron’s song, “Whitey on the Moon” Tucker Carlson interviews Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show John’s book, All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America 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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Glenn Loury

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Paywall?

16/03/2023

Goat’s cheese

Are all episodes now behind a paywall? Only 5 minute summaries are available
Mr John Bradley

12/03/2023

Green Ridge

Why am I only getting short clips for the last four or five episodes?
Great show

05/07/2022

joazn

I wouldn’t miss an episode. Always informative, entertaining.
WOkE BUSTERS

06/02/2021

Go Mhaith

An Academic knife through woke butter

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