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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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John McWhorter – January 2025 Q&A

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John take questions from Substack subscribers in this Q&A episode. 1:02 Pat Rimell presents a list of propositions about general poverty in urban communities 17:54 Samuel D. James asks if John has any writing advice 23:35 Tom Wojciaczyk wants to know if what the difference is between an accent and pronunciation 30:50 Michael asks why we’re not more worried about Trump taking us back to the nuclear brinksmanship of the Cold War 39:03 Karen Dawn Norris offers two defenses of reparations 43:34 Young Törless asks, since we use the term “blackness” so often, if we could come up with a definition of it that would satisfy such disparate figures as Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley, Condoleezza Rice, Raven-Symone, and Iman 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

53 min
7 FEB.

John McWhorter – Trump's Dismantling of DEI

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 1:10 Which race-conscious programs stay and which go? 11:05 Ground News ad 12:42 Glenn: I’m afraid some African Americans might get left behind 19:25 More programs won’t address the problems of “the underclass” 27:49 John: Maybe this is the best it can be 31:22 The great benefits of HBCUs 35:35 ACTA ad 37:48 Ibram X. Kendi decamps for Howard 44:49 Studying the African diaspora 51:35 The passing of Belle da Costa Greene 1:02:29 Is colorism within the black community still an issue? Recorded February 2, 2025 Links and Readings Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist The Woodson Center James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses John’s NYT column, “Black and White Weren’t Always as Black-and-White as They Seem” Hilton Als’s New Yorker piece, “The Hidden Story of J.P. Morgan’s Library” Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom’s America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible Karen and Barbara Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 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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31 JAN.

Rajiv Sethi – Are Trump's Tariff Threats Working?

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published 7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing 9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment 17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024 23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets? 31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists 39:26 Secular backsliding in India 43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive order Recorded January 25, 2025 Links and Readings Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information Rajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover” James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Glenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorship Glenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality” Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversation Rajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment” Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat” Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit” John Cochrane’s review of Late Admissions Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution Gyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, Kismet Rajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice 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
28 JAN.

Bonus Episode: The Mad Negotiator

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference. Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com

2 min
24 JAN.

John McWhorter, Eli Lake, and Matthew Cockerill – Debating Civilian Casualties in Gaza

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 1:08 Intros 4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign 9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings 15:31 Ground News ad 17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy? 23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war 30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold? 33:28 ACTA ad 38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war 48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US? 52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war 56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent? 1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora 1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war? 1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025 Links and Readings Trailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking History Matthew’s YouTube show, History Speaks Airwars Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report Yuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza” Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets” Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians” Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza” 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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21 JAN.

Bonus Episode: Lucky Number 47

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 post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.

3 min
17 JAN.

Peter Moskos – The Extraordinary NYC Crime Drop

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Video Links 0:55 Peter’s new book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop 5:27 Why policing went off the rails over the last decade 11:03 Peter: I’m done with police abolitionists 19:22 Why don’t we hear about unarmed black men getting shot anymore? 22:00 Remembering the lessons of ‘90s New York 28:07 Dealing with the racial disparity problem 35:46 Is there a suicide problem among cops? 39:31 The Ferguson Effect 43:12 The utility of pretextual stops 48:29 The pride felt by the 1990s NYPD 50:30 What cops think of Darren Wilson and Derek Chauvin Recorded January 10, 2025 Links and Readings Peter’s forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop Peter’s book, In Defense of Flogging Peter’s book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District Tracy Mears on police legitimacy and the future of policing Heather Mac Donald’s book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer’s paper, “Policing the Police: The Impact of ‘Pattern-or-Practice’ Investigations on Crime” 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

54 min
14 JAN.

Bonus Episode: Unsure Footing

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com In this post-show bonus episode with Nikita, Mark, and LaJuan, we talk about what's required of a black intellectual, shifting alliances and ideological orientations, and the utility of the police.

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One of the least dogmatic minds in the podosphere. I urge you never to miss an episode.

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