The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury
Podcast 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

  1. -6 H

    Larry Kotlikoff – Do We Need an Economist in the White House?

    Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:14 Larry Kotlikoff for President? 5:40 Larry’s plan to save social security 9:30 Reincentivizing work, saving, and staying in the US 14:55 Rewriting the story about income and labor 21:08 Why a 10% tariff could amount to a new national sales tax or worse 23:33 Glenn: Trade with other nations is not a zero-sum game 29:15 Taxing billionaires on consumption rather than income 34:43 The price of shame 38:40 Maintaining competitive conditions with universal health insurance 44:49 What’s causing inflation? 52:26 How big of a problem is the national debt? Recorded September 4, 2024 Links and Readings Larry’s Substack Larry’s homepage Larry’s book, with Philip Moeller and Paul Solman, Getting What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Larry’s book, with Scott Burns, The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future Larry’s book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking Larry’s financial planning program, MaxiFi Larry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s Economy Larry’s book, The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans 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

    60 min
  2. 13 SEPT.

    John McWhorter – The Post-Affirmative Action Class of 2028

    Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:59 Glenn debuts his new studio 2:34 Life after academia 13:02 The challenge of having a lot of time on your hands 18:10 John’s new musical endeavors 20:20 Ground News ad 22:38 John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words 25:07 Glenn and John form an impromptu book club 29:43 The first class of post-Students for Fair Admissions college freshmen 36:22 Are black students being shut out of the upper echelons of American society? 40:33 The Supreme Court’s “indirect beneficial endowment” to HBCUs 46:42 Glenn: “The wheel is turning” on race politics in America 52:18 ACTA ad 54:26 Plagiarism in Robin DiAngelo’s dissertation 57:02 John: I don’t recognize the world that Danzy Senna and Ketanji Brown Jackson describe, even though I lived in it 1:04:07 Did Thomas Chatterton Williams really say what he said to Danzy Senna? Recorded September 8, 2024 Links and Readings The Rest Is History on Apple Podcasts Preorder John’s forthcoming book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words David Kaiser’s book, States of the Union: A History of the United States through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023 David Kaiser discusses his book States of the Union on TGS Sari Nusseibeh’s memoir, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, John Lewis: A Life Danzy Senna’s novel, Colored Television Percival Everett’s novel, James Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America Michelle Obama’s DNC speech Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race 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

    1 h 11 min
  3. 6 SEPT.

    Harry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?

    Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:59 How Harry met Glenn 3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men? 11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural 18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support 25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed” 31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit all 35:22 Three ways to improve employment prospects 39:10 Glenn asks “the Chicago question” 42:09 Discrimination against ex-convicts 50:38 Immigration’s impact on black employment 53:29 Are too many people in prison? 56:07 Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generate Recorded August 20, 2024 Links and Readings Harry and Glenn’s conversation about “racism, narratives, and backlash” with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Harry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, The Black Youth Employment Crisis Melissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind Isabel V. Sawhill’s book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage Douglas Harris’s book, Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education Glenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts” William Julius Wilson’s book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions 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

    1 h 3 min
  4. 30 AOÛT

    John McWhorter – Feeling the "Joy" at the DNC

    Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 1:28 John heads back to the linguistic woodshed 3:55 Glenn’s nascent retirement plan 4:23 Glenn and John’s late summer reading 11:58 The “joy” of the Democratic National Convention 17:47 Ground News ad 20:11 The oratorical panache of the Obamas 25:37 John: What’s the point of all this performative joy? 30:16 Keywords from the DNC: “Weird” 34:17 Keywords from the DNC: “Freedom” 41:48 Keywords from the DNC: “Joy” 44:25 Keywords from the DNC: “Fight” 46:03 ACTA ad 47:52 Glenn’s distrust of Kamala’s candidacy 52:42 Why Glenn puts the “Hussein” in “Barack Hussein Obama” 56:04 RFK Jr’s endorsement of Donald Trump 1:04:51 Coming soon: Breakfast with the Lourys Recorded August 25, 2024 Links and Readings Percival Everett’s novel, James Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin James Baldwin’s essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir, Between the World and Me Alex Haley’s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family Barack Obama’s DNC speech Michelle Obama’s DNC speech Oprah Winfrey’s DNC speech John’s NYT column, “The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works” 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

    1 h 2 min

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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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