The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

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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

1 DAY AGO

Post-Show: Why I'm Happy Trump Won

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about my conversation with John McWhorter, my elation over Trump's victory, and why I wasn't forthcoming about my preference for him over Harris. This episode is available only to full subscribers to my Substack. If you're listening to the full episode, thank you for all your support. And if you want more of The Glenn Show, in addition a host of other benefits, go to https://glennloury.substack.com and become a full subscriber.

3 min
5 DAYS AGO

Daniel Bessner – Trump's Triumph and Liberalism's Failure

The Glenn Show is almost entirely listener supported. To receive early access to TGS episodes, an ad-free podcast feed, Q&As, and other exclusive content and benefits, become a full subscriber at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 1:21 Have Glenn’s intellectual shifts been misread? 5:45 Danny: Francis Fukuyama was right 10:30 Capitalism won. Is that a good thing? 14:18 The climate under capitalism 20:24 Danny: “People said 'f**k you' to the Democratic Party” 23:51 Why the “Trump is a fascist” argument makes no sense 27:53 Whither the working class coalition? 33:10 How the US foreign policy establishment won the argument and lost Ukraine 36:28 Danny: There is no way the US can maintain influence in East Asia 38:26 Does Jewish survival require a Jewish state? 43:50 The limits of social science 49:36 The media’s obsession with polling 53:55 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?52:34 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration? Recorded November 9, 2024 Links and Readings Dann’s podcast, American Prestige Danny’s conversations with Glenn about his intellectual history, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 Francis Fukuyama’s Financial Times piece, “What Trump Unleashed Means for America” Danny’s Nation essay, “The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama” Adam Tooze’s podcast, Ones & Tooze Danny’s Harper’s essay, “The Life and Death of Hollywood” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s manifesto, The Communist Manifesto Danny’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque” Danny’s Boston Review piece, “Mass Destruction” Glenn’s recent conversation with Rajiv Sethi JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civilization: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity Yuri Slezkine’s book, The Jewish Century 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

1h 4m
12 NOV

Post-Show: Trump's Worst Ideas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this post-show conversation with my creative director Nikita Petrov, I review this week's episode with historian Daniel Bessner. We also talk about Trump's policy proposals, capitalism, Russia and Ukraine, NATO, and why I sometimes pull back from speaking my mind. This episode is available only to full subscribers to my Substack. If you're listening to the full episode, thank you for all your support. And if you want more of The Glenn Show, in addition to a host of other benefits, go to https://glennloury.substack.com and become a full subscriber.

2 min
10 NOV

October 2024 Q&A

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this month's Substack subscriber-only Q&A session, we talk about Donald Trump's "Nazi rally" at Madison Square Garden, Martha Raddatz's comments about Venezuelan gangs in Colorado, Glenn's retirement, John's comments about Trump and Vance, my comments about Israel and Palestine, and, of course, Trump's victory.

7 min
5 NOV

Post-Show: It's Happening

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com This is the Post-Show episode following this week's conversation with John McWhorter. In it, Glenn sits down with his editor Mark Sussman and his creative director Nikita Petrov to talk about the election, why he understands where Trump's supporters are coming from, the meaning of voting, and the possibility that Trump might release sealed documents relating to the JFK assassination. If you're a paying subscribing, you're receiving the full episode. If you're not, you're receiving a preview clip. Consider becoming a subscriber at https://glennloury.substack.com, and receive early access to weekly episodes, exclusive content like post-show episodes, monthly Q&As with John McWhorter, and a host of other benefits.

1 min
4 NOV

John McWhorter – Last Words before the Election

If you subscribe only to the free version of this podcast, you’ll notice this episode has arrived a few days early. I figured that by Friday, when the episode normally drops for the general public, it will be out of date already, so we’re releasing it to everyone today. If you find you enjoy starting your week with The Glenn Show, consider becoming a paying subscriber, which will get you early access to episodes, along with a host of other benefits. Subscribe to The Glenn Show on Substack at https://glennloury.substack.com [Note: In the episode, John mistakenly referred to the author of a biography of Ronald Reagan as George Will. He meant to reference Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy.] 1:39 Pre-election jitters 3:23 Will Democrats contest the election if it goes Trump’s way? 4:44 A crisis for democracy, maybe, but not the end of democracy 10:02 John’s case against Trump’s proposed second administration 15:36 Ground News ad 17:28 The Obamas’ attempted intervention and post-presidential performance 26:58 The mind of the informed Trump voter 34:20 A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies) 41:15 Is Trump losing it or just tired of campaigning? 44:25 The Washington Post and the LA Times decline to endorse 47:48 Glenn and John’s election night plans 50:48 The nightmare scenario Recorded November 3, 2024 Links and Readings Shelby Steele’s book, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid John’s NYT column, “Donald Trump Is Bored” Max Boot’s book, Reagan: His Life and Legacy Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series DVD box set Douglas Murray’s Free Press piece, “Things Worth Remembering: Whoever Loses, They Should Lose Like Nixon” 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

52 min
1 NOV

Rajiv Sethi – Taking Bets on the Presidency

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Rajiv’s report from the FIRE conference 3:11 Roland Fryer’s keynote address 13:26 Ta-Nehisi Coates’s humanist universalism 17:25 “Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus” 18:50 Rajiv’s reading of Coates’s stand on “apartheid” 31:55 The gap between election forecasting models and prediction markets 36:52 The limits of models and markets 39:59 Rajiv: The markets show us a balance between narratives about the election 44:17 Is one crypto trader manipulating the prediction markets in favor of Trump? 53:12 Rajiv: Prediction markets may have sent early signals about January 6 55:19 Rajiv’s family history with Kamala Harris 57:45 The new prominence of Indian Americans in politics 1:03:07 The axiom of antiessentialism Recorded October 27, 2024 Links and Readings Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Lara Bazelon’s 2022 Atlantic essay, “The ACLU Has Lost Its Way” Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Bazelon Glenn’s 2023 conversation with Erec Smith Eugene Volokh on the Hamline University-Prophet Muhammad painting controversy Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message Coates’s 2010 Atlantic essay, “The Ghost of Bobby Lee” Ralph Wiley’s book, Dark Witness: When Black People Should Be Sacrificed (Again) Last week’s TGS debate about The Messsage Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Polymarket Recorded October 27, 2024 Links and Readings Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Lara Bazelon’s 2022 Atlantic essay, “The ACLU Has Lost Its Way” Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Bazelon Glenn’s 2023 conversation with Erec Smith Eugene Volokh on the Hamline University-Prophet Muhammad painting controversy Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message Coates’s 2010 Atlantic essay, “The Ghost of Bobby Lee” Ralph Wiley’s book, Dark Witness: When Black People Should Be Sacrificed (Again) Last week’s TGS debate about The Messsage Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Polymarket 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

1h 7m
25 OCT

John McWhorter – Glenn and John Throw Down over The Message

Incogni is your personal data defender, safeguarding you from these digital predators. Use code GLENN at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/glenn 1:22 The Coates debate continues 3:18 John: Coates is a beautiful writer, but … 5:44 John: … The Message is suffused with incuriosity and simplistic thinking 13:45 Glenn: Coates is talking about humanism and power, not race 18:11 Ground News ad 20:25 Is it “all about whitey”? 22:11 Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this book. What am I doing? 27:40 What kind of historical imagination is at work in The Message? 34:11 Moral clarity or abdication of responsibility? 36:30 Pro-Palestinian writers John considers acceptable 41:54 The next entries in Glenn and John’s book club 42:04 Coates’s now notorious interview on CBS Mornings 48:45 What is the black intellectual’s role today? 52:16 The counterexample of South Africa Recorded October 19, 2024 Links and Readings Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message Glenn and John’s previous conversation John’s NYT column, “Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Myth of Black Fragility” Michael Chabon’s novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Jeffrey Sachs on YouTube Judge Andrew Napolitano on YouTube Trevor Noah’s conversation with Coates Ezra Klein’s conversation with Coates Peter Beinart’s conversation with Coates David Greenberg’s new book, John Lewis: A Life Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative James Baldwin’s essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind” 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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25 Aug

us/uk lady

How refreshing to find this enlightening podcast. The curiosity of our host is refreshing. His guest, John, kept me on my toes. Looking forward to more.
Intelligent, objective discussions

15/06/2022

lilian751

I am a huge fan of this podcast. It’s so refreshing to hear balanced, objective, rational discussions. It’s something which the whole world needs more of. Thank you for having the courage to ask the tough questions. The more society shies away from having these types of open conversations, the more profound our societal problems will become.
Love this show

27/02/2022

Natalie1026

This show is always interesting, and a model of civil, intelligent and informed discourse. It’s too bad that is such a rare quality these days. Love both Glenn and frequent contributor John McW.
Necessary conversations

02/01/2022

BizzoH

Love the Glenn show, especially when John McW is the guest. They tell it as it is, in an articulate manner and say what needs to be said. I enjoy their obvious rapport and friendship. They are heroes for speaking out, and seem like decent guys. Thank you.