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77 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsGlenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues.
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Recalibrating Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
September 18, 2020 13:14 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBPeter: "Mismatch theory" is not a front for racial prejudice ... The problem of data transparency and affirmative action ... Who gets access to affirmative action data? ... Repairing the “broken trust” of America’s racial history ... Would more data transparency actually stop race-based affirmative action? ... Determining the optimal amount of affirmative action ...
Discrimination at Harvard? (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
September 10, 2020 23:33 - 52 minutes - 23.5 MBPeter's controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors ... Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum? ... Peter's work on the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants ... Roland Fryer's research on race and lethal police force ... Stories vs. statistics ... Remembering Glenn's late wife, economist Linda Datcher Loury ...
The End of Wokeness (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
September 01, 2020 22:58 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBJohn detects a burgeoning pushback against racial wokeness ... The anti-racist “bluff” radicals ... Glenn: Most Americans agree with Trump’s defenses of the police ... Comparing the 1963 March on Washington to its 2020 sequel ... Why doesn’t Trump disavow violence committed in his name? ...
The Rare and Elusive Conservative Academic (Glenn Loury & Steven Teles)
August 29, 2020 00:51 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBThe complex heterogeneity of Black American politics ... Why are there so few conservatives in academia? ... Is there any hope of attracting more of them? ... Glenn proposes the creation of a Conservative Studies program ... How Covid-induced austerity might affect diversity in university hiring ... Would it even be possible to staff a conservative academic institution? ...
Police Defunding and Its Discontents (Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos)
August 24, 2020 15:11 - 45 minutes - 23.5 MBPeter: The police aren’t hated, but politicians are listening to the haters ... What is driving rising violent crime rates in NYC? ... The problem of discussing racial disparities in crime and policing ... Contesting Jill Lepore’s account of the history of policing ... Disambiguating police defunding and police reform ...
Crises in Chicago (Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein)
August 20, 2020 03:09 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MBThe two crises in Chicago ... Richard: "The quarantines are overdoing it" ... Richard's critique of clinical trials for pharmaceuticals ... The recent looting in Chicago ... A classical liberal approach to fixing housing on the South Side ... Why didn't the Chicago PD stop the looting? ... Richard praises Trump's "fairly solid record of achievement" ... Will vote by mail produce a disaster? ...
The Economics of Covid Management (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
August 14, 2020 16:27 - 44 minutes - 23.5 MBThe feasibility of group testing for Covid ... Is Trump responsible for inadequate testing? ... Larry: The government should fund companies developing rapid home testing ... Critiquing the FDA’s approach to testing ... Larry: Rapid home testing could bring the economy back within three weeks ...
The Politics of School Reopenings (Glenn Loury & Michelle Kerr)
August 09, 2020 00:48 - 48 minutes - 23.5 MBWhy Michele thinks schools shouldn't have closed ... Are teachers’ unions bad for students? ... Glenn: Teachers are almost certainly not a high-risk group ... Is the school reopening fight about health concerns or politics? ... Maintaining student accountability in distance learning ...
The IQ Taboo (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax)
July 31, 2020 18:34 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBDebating Charles Murray’s new book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class ... Amy: It is an undeniable fact that there are IQ differences between whites and blacks ... Do group IQ differences have a place in politics? ... Does public opinion about race influence elites? ... Amy: Bohemians belong on the margins of society ... The benefits of a meritocratic society ...
The Dark Arts (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
July 23, 2020 23:46 - 54 minutes - 23.5 MBJohn on "a truly medieval moment" ... Why Glenn didn't sign the Harper's open letter ... Linguists petition against fellow linguist Steven Pinker ... Is this actually just about the economics of the collapsing media industry? ... Calling someone a racist vs. calling someone a witch ... John's harsh review of White Fragility ... Critiquing an open letter by 300 Princeton professors on anti-racism ...
Braver Angels (Glenn Loury & John Wood)
July 09, 2020 22:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBJohn explains how the current national crisis came to be ... Is civic discourse dead? ... Glenn: We are sliding into a state where the basic preconditions of society are at question ... Is America going backwards on race? ... Glenn: "I feel like my side is losing, and I think it's a catastrophe" ... Can faith help bind up the nation's wounds? ...
The Unraveling (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
July 04, 2020 22:00 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBJohn: White Fragility is "one of the worst books ever written" ... Debating how we should remember Woodrow Wilson ... Glenn: Our story is about more than just domination and oppression ... On being a dissident black academic ... Why John resigned from the board of the National Books Critics Circle ... Should John and Glenn fear defenestration by the mob? ...
A Life in History (Glenn Loury & David Kaiser)
June 30, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBDavid's memoir, A Life in History ... David: Political history is being ignored in the academy ... Defending the Western model ... Did the Vietnam War spark a turn away from Enlightenment values? ... The 1619 Project and the ideals of the founding ... The lament of the white male ... Why is college so expensive? ... Did the founders actually believe in universal values? ...
Black Faces, Black Interests (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain)
June 23, 2020 17:46 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBHow Glenn and Carol first met ... Carol's 1993 book, Black Faces, Black Interests ... Would Stacey Abrams have won if she were pro-life? ... Carol's journey to Christianity ... Carol's prescient book on the new white nationalism ... Carol: "I have a lot of respect for Jared Taylor" ... Carol's harsh critique of identity politics on college campuses ... Are black conservatives winning, losing, or something else? ... Why Carol loves Donald Trump ...
Dropping the Mask (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes)
June 18, 2020 18:07 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MBColeman's post-collegiate life (with a cameo from Glenn's wife) ... Reopening and the invisible cost of agreeing with Trump ... Thomas Sowell's thoughts on partisanship ... Glenn: Trump is "bumbling his way through" the tradeoffs of reopening ... Masks as a way of life ... Do racial disparities in Covid deaths demonstrate systemic bias? ...
The Viruses (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
June 10, 2020 22:55 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBJohn: George Floyd's murder was not an exclusively racial matter ... Glenn: "We're in the grip of hysteria" ... John: Apparently anti-racism trumps even medical science ... What it's like being a black contrarian right now ... Glenn: The real threat to black people is crime ... John argues that fixing problems with the cops has to be the first step ...
Teaching Under Lockdown (Glenn Loury & Michele Kerr)
June 08, 2020 20:13 - 41 minutes - 19 MBWas the pandemic lockdown overkill? ... How Michele transitioned her high school students to distance learning ... Michele: We changed the rules on our students ... The “herd mentality” opposing herd immunity ... Michele: “Teachers should be getting back to work” ...
A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation (Glenn Loury & Joshua Cohen)
June 04, 2020 03:52 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBJosh: This is a more dangerous moment than any I can remember ... Was George Floyd lynched? ... Glenn views police abuse as a universal problem and fears racialized backlash ... Josh worries about free and fair elections in November ... Glenn: Violence and looting must be denounced ... Glenn and Josh agree that Trump is not up to the task ... The price of order and the cost of chaos ...
Cops and Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 29, 2020 04:04 - 1 hour - 32.9 MBThe death of George Floyd in Minneapolis ... Is crime a moral failing? ... Glenn: "Black people in poor cities need the cops" ... The Central Park birder incident ... Meditating on the tears of Eddie Glaude ... Glenn decries Biden's racial pandering ... John: The problem is with cops and with guns, not racism ...
Affirmative Action for Americans? (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax)
May 18, 2020 21:12 - 1 hour - 31 MBAmy wants to starve the higher ed beast ... Do Americans need affirmative action for graduate school? ... Glenn and Amy criticize undergraduate instruction ... Amy: "There's a certain degree of feminization that is going on as well" ... How should students be graded during the pandemic? ... Amy explains what we should and shouldn't be doing during the pandemic ... The Wuhan lab theory ...
The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas (Glenn Loury & Michael Pack)
May 11, 2020 22:35 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBMichael's new documentary, Created Equal: Justice Thomas in His Own Words ... Is some of the criticism of Thomas from the left racist? ... Why isn't he celebrated in the black community? ... Thomas's originalist view of the Constitution ... Thomas's wife Ginni, a conservative activist ... How Thomas's grandfather shaped his life ... The Anita Hill hearings and their legacy ... Why does Thomas rarely speak at oral argument? ...
The 1619 Project's Pulitzer (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 06, 2020 18:39 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBNikole Hannah-Jones wins a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project ... Glenn: This is "a desperate struggle for dignity" in the face of black failure ... Self-hatred and patronization ... Glenn: A bubble that I thought would burst hasn't burst ... Biden's black agenda vs. Glenn's black agenda ... John: Black men need jobs ... Race and the picking of fruit ... Glenn: Don't teach children that their future is outside of their hands ...
The Science of the Virus (Glenn Loury & C. Brandon Ogbunu)
May 04, 2020 20:25 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBBrandon explains what a coronavirus is ... Where the virus came from ... Evaluating the "laboratory escape" theory ... The path to an effective vaccine ... Brandon: We have not been alarmist about the pandemic ... Why a forecasting model can be way off but still correct ... Brandon: The federal government has underreacted from the start ... Brandon critiques the surgeon general's messages to African Americans ...
The Pandemic in Prisons (Glenn Loury & Josiah Rich)
April 30, 2020 23:45 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBJody describes what it's like inside his hospital ... How an outbreak in a prison could overwhelm the local hospital system ... Jody: "Most people don't need to be locked up, and don't need to be locked up for that long" ... What about all the murderers and rapists? ... Why Jody is not a prison abolitionist ... How Covid kills ...
The Policy Response to the Pandemic (Glenn Loury, Harold Pollack, & Steven Teles)
April 27, 2020 22:08 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBHow would the late Mark Kleiman have viewed the policy response to the pandemic? ... The democratic legitimacy of the administrative state ... Glenn: Policy experts can't determine human values ... Are the economic tradeoffs of shutdown too great? ... Harold: The costs of Covid are vivid in people's lives ... Did Trump unintentionally help tamp down civil unrest? ...
Islands of Excellence (Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.)
April 21, 2020 22:28 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBHow Bob joined and eventually split with the civil rights movement ... Critiquing the government bureaucracy of the American welfare state ... Bob: Affirmative action has been exploited by middle-class blacks ... Black achievement during the century after the Civil War ... Glenn asks, "what is to be done?" ... Bob: "I don't have any choice but to be optimistic" ... Glenn: "Black people ought not to be taught to hate our country" ...
Race and the Virus (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
April 14, 2020 21:42 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MBJohn on being at Covid ground zero in Queens ... The many racial disparities the pandemic has made plain ... But after the disparities are acknowledged, now what? ... Differences in life expectancy, health, and diet ... Does the pandemic make the case for universal healthcare? ... Racial discrimination by health care providers ...
Corona Taboos (Glenn Loury & Wilfred Reilly)
April 10, 2020 22:14 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBWilfred's new book, Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About ... The view of corona from Western Kentucky ... Wilfred: A universal shutdown doesn't make sense... ... ...instead we need random serological testing ... Is the pandemic revealing a structural weakness of democracy? ... Examining the racial disparity in infection rates ... Glenn: Experts should be "on tap, not on top" ...
A Better Way (Glenn Loury & Danielle Allen)
April 06, 2020 21:30 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBApplying just war theory to the pandemic ... Danielle's three options: "freeze," "surrender," and "mobilize and transition" ... There's never been a vaccine for a coronavirus ... How Danielle's COVID-19 response working group came together ... Mixing free-market and command-economy strategies ... Trump's "request for proposals" ...
Gimme Shelter (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
March 30, 2020 22:17 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MBJohn reports on sheltering in place in NYC ... Race and the coronavirus ... Is calling the disease the "China virus" xenophobic? ... John wants President Cuomo ... Glenn: "You go to the crisis with the president you've got, not the president that you wish you had" ... John maligns and Glenn defends the president ... Do you feel safe? ...
Your Money or Your Life (Glenn Loury & Harold Pollack)
March 26, 2020 01:41 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBPersonal finance during a public health emergency ... Harold: No one totally understands the US economy ... Social isolation and emotional support ... Thought experiment: 600K deaths vs. a massive recession ... Looking back at the HIV epidemic ... Does it make sense to compare our situation with South Korea's? ... Will the virus kill identity politics? ... Harold is very pleased that Dems went with the moderate ...
Coronavirus and Inequality (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi)
March 24, 2020 00:37 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBRajiv: Testing is the key to defeating coronavirus ... How do we know if we're overreacting to the virus? ... Considering credit forbearance ... Rajiv argues for public banking through the Federal Reserve ... Debating universal basic income ... The ethics of public imposition ...
The Economics of Coronavirus (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
March 19, 2020 21:42 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBWhy quarantine is not enough ... Larry's proposal for a universal mandatory testing regime ... Glenn pushes back on Larry's plan on economic and libertarian grounds ... Is inflation coming? ... The importance of the "velocity" of money ... Why public health must come before economic health ...
A Corona Contrarian (Glenn Loury & Heather Mac Donald)
March 17, 2020 21:10 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBHeather argues that we are overreacting to the coronavirus ... Heather: "Everyone should be a capitalist in a pandemic" ... Public goods and exponential growth ... Grading the Trump administration's handling of the crisis ... Has the media exaggerated the threat? ... Glenn predicts this will be a major blow to populism ...
Trump vs. COVID-19 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
March 13, 2020 21:35 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBHow COVID-19 is affecting Glenn and John’s semester ... The mass psychology of coronavirus-inspired shutdowns ... Glenn: The social justice implications of the virus are legitimate ... Will Trump’s handling of the crisis be his downfall? ... Glenn: “The pussy grabber needs help!” ... Is Trump an effective politician or a hapless dolt? ...
Anti-Semitism, Israel-Palestine, and Bernie (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry)
March 03, 2020 23:52 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBThe recent spike in assaults on ultra-Orthodox Jews in NYC ... Is anti-Semitism or something else the root cause? ... Bob: The demonization of Israeli Jews has filtered down ... Are liberal Jews downplaying black anti-Semitism? ... Bob argues that Palestinians in Israel are doing relatively well ... Glenn: "There ain't gonna be no two-state solution" ... Ex-Leninist Bob makes the case against Bernie ... Would a Jewish president be good for the Jews? ...
The Case for Charter Schools (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe)
February 29, 2020 00:13 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBIan describes the charter school network he runs ... How teachers are treated in charters vs. in public schools ... Ian rebuts the charge that charters cherrypick their students ... Why Ian's schools are all single-sex ... The political campaign against charters ... Ian's critique of using the 1619 Project as curriculum ... The "Who's your daddy?" truck in the Bronx ... Is the racial achievement gap the wrong problem to focus on? ...
Looking Back (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi)
February 20, 2020 04:43 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBGlenn's landmark 1977 paper, "A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences" ... Glenn's theory of "relations before transactions" ... Critics accused Glenn of "flirting with the idea of black inferiority" ... What William F. Buckley said that broke Glenn's heart ... Why do Maine and Vermont let prisoners vote, when most states don't? ... Glenn vows to finish his memoir this summer ... The roles that two black academics played in Glenn's early career ...
Immigration and Race (Glenn Loury, Ernesto Cortés, Jr., & Peter Skerry)
February 11, 2020 06:47 - 1 hour - 36.4 MBDo blacks and Latinos have aligning interests? ... Ernesto: Immigrants have an irrational belief in the American dream ... Debating the benefits of immigration ... Can universal health care and open immigration be reconciled? ... Why Peter called Mexicans the "ambivalent minority" ... Will Latinos socially assimilate? Will blacks be left behind again? ... Revisiting Lincoln's Second Inaugural ... Ernesto: Most Latinos just want to work ...
Revisiting the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
February 03, 2020 05:29 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBJohn: The central claim of the NYT's 1619 Project "simply isn't true" ... Glenn offers a defense of the Project's perspective ... What the Constitution's three-fifths clause really meant ... John: "America is an endless rehearsal" ... After Kobe Bryant died, was it bad taste to bring up his rape accusation? ... Glenn praises Khalil Gibran Muhammad's The Condemnation of Blackness ...
The Souls of Yellow Folk (Glenn Loury & Wesley Yang)
January 31, 2020 02:36 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MBWesley's new book of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk ... The meaning of Andrew Yang as an Asian American ... Ivy League admissions, intermarriage, and Harvard's "personality scores" ... Wesley: There's a "false crisis" about race in NYC elite public schools ... Wesley's essay about the Virginia Tech mass shooter ... The dismissed grievances of the Asian-American male ...
What Does MLK Day Mean Now? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
January 21, 2020 20:13 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBJohn: The racial conversation has improved over the past decade ... Decrying the "racism" explanation when black people don't succeed in a given field ... Glenn: "You're the weakest sister at the table, and you're gonna place demands?" ... The young black men who jump turnstiles and cross in the middle of the street ... So what does Martin Luther King Day mean now? ... How and why black culture changed so much between 1960 and 1970 ... Do changing sensibilities exonerate Russell Simmons? ...
Critiquing "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Glenn Loury & Scott Gerber)
January 13, 2020 21:43 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBIs impeachment justified? ... Summarizing Corey Robin's new book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas ... Scott: Robin doesn't understand Thomas's actual constitutional interpretation ... Critiquing Robin's psychological reading of Thomas's childhood ... Thomas's actual views on gender and the family ...
The New Culture Wars (Glenn Loury & Meghan Daum)
January 04, 2020 00:59 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBWhat's new about the culture wars? ... Meghan: "White women are the new white men" ... Reacting vs. responding ... Meghan: Gen Xers had the advantage of second-wave feminist childhoods ... Meghan's controversial essay on "toxic femininity" ... The different kinds of power men and women have ... The case for and against pussy hats ...
Crime, Justice, and Reform (Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos)
December 23, 2019 23:14 - 43 minutes - 20 MBPeter explains how stop-and-frisk went too far ... Who or what deserves credit for NYC's massive murder decline? ... Peter: Reducing poverty is not the way to reduce crime ... Are cops reaping the whirlwind? ... The aftermath of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Laquan McDonald in Chicago ... Criminal justice reform and the potential backlash ...
What Should Be Out of Bounds? (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
December 19, 2019 05:20 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBBob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv ... Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem ... Speech policing, the "n-word," and the uses of ridicule ... What's Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism really about? ... Does the IDW care about protecting speech critical of Israel? ... Bob critiques The Trayvon Hoax ... Bob: Be wary of throwing around the word "hoax" ... Quillette accuses Bob of palling around with tyranny apologists ...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case, Part Two (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
December 11, 2019 04:06 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBGlenn and John respond to criticism of their discussion of The Trayvon Hoax ... Why Glenn finds the film credible despite its creator's conspiracy theories ... John: The public didn't get the full story of Zimmerman's 911 call ... The case as a forerunner of larger dynamics in American political culture ... Did Zimmerman have a rational prejudice? ... Glenn and John ain't running away ... What was Trayvon thinking? ...
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
December 06, 2019 21:42 - 54 minutes - 25 MBGeorge Zimmerman sues a bunch of people for $100 million ... Rightwing filmmaker Joel Gilbert's The Trayvon Hoax ... Gilbert's past conspiracy theorizing ... An age of fake news and relativism ... What John thinks really happened ... Recent racially charged hoaxes ... The racial narrative and "whose side are you on?" ...
Who Really Pays Taxes? (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
November 30, 2019 05:27 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBDoes the US tax system favor the rich? ... Why spending is more equally distributed than wealth ... How Larry makes his calculations ... How billionaires can avoid paying taxes ... Larry: We should tax consumption instead of income or wealth ... Larry critiques Andrew Yang's universal basic income plan ... Should Trump get credit for a good economy? ...
The Economics of Fighting Climate Change (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
November 20, 2019 03:57 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBCritiquing William Nordhaus's work on the economics of climate change ... Larry: My plan for carbon taxation is a win-win ... Can elderly voters who don't care about the future be won over? ... What about critics of capitalism itself? ... Accounting for the uncertainties of climate science ... The work of the 2019 Economics Nobel laureates ...