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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
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Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis
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0:00 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway
4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions …
12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions
19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020
23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right?
29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct
34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct
38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use
43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling
49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down
53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes?
Recorded March 22, 2024
Links and Readings
Charles’s Substack, The Causal Fallacy
Charles’s City Journal piece, “Yes, New York’s Bail Reform Has Increased Crime”
Charles and co-author Elias Neibart’s Manhattan Institute report, “Is Less Always More? The Unintended Consequences of New York State’s Parole Reform”
Glenn’s conversation with Matthew Martens
Matthew Martens’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal
Charles and co-author Reihan Salam’s Atlantic piece, “We’re Underfunding the Police”
Tom Wolfe’s book, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Charles’s Substack post, “The Police Unions Puzzle”
Glenn’s conversation with Philip K. Howard
Philip K. Howard’s book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
Charles’s City Journal piece, “Combat the Drug Crisis”
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John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater
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0:00 A message from Glenn
4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell
9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage
13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground
19:01 The lure of acting
22:43 2020’s affect on the racial dynamics of the theater
30:40 Clifton: Top-down DEI casting edicts are “central planning for art”
40:25 The racial attitude that’s “destroying black artists,” according to Viola Davis
47:27 Why Clifton changed his position about COVID pandemic measures
1:04:29 The left’s valuation of vulnerability
1:14:21 Why Clifton’s career fell apart after 2020
1:24:56 If progressives like the COVID vaccines, why don’t they give Trump any credit?
1:29:05 The problem of the black independent thinker
Recorded April 13, 2024
Links & Reading
Clifton’s Substack, State of the Arts
Thomas Sowell’s 1983 appearance on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line
Thomas Sowell’s memoir, A Personal Odyssey
Cheryl West’s play, Before It Hits Home
Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Plays/365 Days
Donald Bogle’s book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
Donald Bogle’s book, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
The Great Barrington Declaration
Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
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Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex
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0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin
5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy
9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats
17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?
21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex
28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect
35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook
42:04 What you can’t say about war
45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests
55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition
1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy
Recorded March 21, 2024
Links and Readings
Michael’s Substack, Public
University of Austin
Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The WPATH Files
John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death
Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”
John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”
Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson
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A Message from Glenn
A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month.
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John McWhorter and Keith Ellison – Prosecuting Derek Chauvin
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0:00 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS
4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts
9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first
13:00: Keith: Liz Collin doesn’t seem to believe that police misconduct actually exists
16:40 How Keith accounts for racial disparities in criminal behavior
21:36 The emotional dimension of prosecution
27:15 Keith’s argument for integration and against charter schools
35:19 The redlining debate
40:00 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct
44:45 Keith: “‘Defund the police’ is dumb”
46:38 What’s causing low police morale?
50:25 Keith’s argument for a two-state solution and re-electing Biden
55:41 Keith: Glenn and John play an important role in political discourse today
Recorded March 30, 2024
Links and Readings
Keith Ellison’s book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Glenn and John’s first conversation about The Fall of Minneapolis
Glenn and John talk to Fall of Minneapolis filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix
Glenn and John talk George Floyd after Radley Balko’s first post on the documentary
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part One”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Two”
Radley Balko’s Substack post, “The Retconning of George Floyd, Part Three”
Radley Balko’s response to Coleman Hughes
Alpha News
Rucker Johnson’s working paper, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments”
John’s NYT piece, “What’s Missing from the Conversation about Systemic Racism”
Equal Justice Initiative website
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March 2024 Q&A
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Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John, and John's alleged case of TDS.
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