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    The Glenn Show

    Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Randall Kennedy & Renu Mukherjee – A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross Oct 13, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 Introduction by Greg Burnep

    4:27 What does affirmative action mean in 2023?

    11:06 Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination”

    18:21 Diversity’s double-talk

    31:18 Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies?

    34:33 Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems

    41:16 Affirmative action is an elite problem

    48:48 Affirmative action as an insurance policy

    57:42 The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries

    1:04:14 Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it’s time to stop

    1:07:14 Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action?

    1:10:33 Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions?

    1:14:50 Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education?

    1:16:27 Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university?

    1:23:35 Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action?

    Recorded September 20, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Randy’s book, Race, Crime, and the Law

    Randy’s book, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

    Glenn’s conversation with Jay Caspian Kang


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    September 2023 Q&A Oct 11, 2023
    Show notes

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com

    Glenn and John answer subscriber questions.


    John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal Oct 06, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway?

    3:31 Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist

    12:08 CRT’s racial power-grab

    18:06 Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans?

    23:10 Disguising failure as victimology

    32:15 Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing

    39:58 The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal

    51:00 John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University”

    56:40 Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine

    1:04:31 The shame of the Kendi scandal

    Recorded September 30, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Dan’s book, Toxic Diversity: Gender, Race, and Law Talk in America

    Frantz Fanon’s book, The Wretched of the Earth

    Adam Schatz’s forthcoming biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

    Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

    Glenn and John’s conversation with Don Baton

    Glenn and John’s conversation with James Beaman


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    Sabrina Salvati & LaJuan Loury – Dems Take Fire from the Left Sep 29, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 How Sabby got her start on YouTube

    6:18 What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”?

    11:31 Is the US sliding into fascism?

    19:26 The tension between race and class on the left

    27:15 Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men

    32:39 The military-industrial complex and climate change

    42:07 Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops

    51:20 Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration

    54:18 Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another

    59:46 Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine”

    1:04:35 How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests

    Recorded September 16, 2023

    Links & Readings

    Sabby’s YouTube page

    Revolutionary Blackout Network’s YouTube page

    Sabby’s interview with Cornel West

    AOC’s endorsement of Joe Biden on Pod Save America

    Jimmy Dore’s interview with Cornel West

    Sabby’s episode on Jimmy Dore-Cornel West interview

    Glenn and John McWhorter’s conversation with Mark Goldblatt

    Glenn’s debate with Richard Wolff

    Briahana Joy Gray debates Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski


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    John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – How the Race Game Is Played Sep 22, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification”

    6:30 Affirmative action in spirit and practice

    13:18 Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone?

    19:17 The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action

    22:47 Re-weighting and funding the admissions process

    32:28 How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people?

    38:23 Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness?

    44:42 Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity

    48:10 Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati

    Recorded September 10, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Tyler’s NYT piece, “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions”

    Tyler’s Atlantic piece, “I’m a Black Professor. You Don’t Need to Bring That Up.”

    Roland Fryer’s NYT piece, “How to Fix College Admissions Now”

    Glenn’s conversation with Jay Caspian Kang

    Jimmy Dore’s interview with Cornel West

    John’s appearance on The View


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    Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation Sep 15, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives

    7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact

    13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

    23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating

    29:56 Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s?

    35:52 Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

    44:20 Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans

    47:58 Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy

    Recorded September 8, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

    Heather Mac Donald’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

    Gary Orfield’s book, The Reconstruction of Southern Education: The Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

    James Fishkin’s book, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family

    Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

    John Skretny’s book, The Minority Rights Revolution

    Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism


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    John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative? Sep 08, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story?

    9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John

    17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times

    22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry

    36:18 Is wokeness on the wane?

    42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain

    51:46 A Democrat by any other name

    56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump

    Recorded August 31, 2023

    Links and Readings

    The Philadelphia Harriet Tubman statue

    John’s NYT piece, “Two Languages Walk into a Bar”

    John’s NYT piece, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry”

    Oliver Anthony’s song, “Rich Men North of Richmond”

    Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That in a Small Town”

    Donald Trump’s mugshot

    Sabrina Salvati’s YouTube channel

    Carol Swain’s recent TGS episode

    Carol Swain’s book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress

    Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules

    Carol Swain’s PragerU videos


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    August 2023 Q&A Sep 06, 2023
    Show notes

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    Carol Swain – The Adversity of Diversity Sep 01, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump

    9:59 Why should black people support Trump?

    16:31 Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election

    26:07 Does Trump face a credible assassination threat?

    30:35 The redefinition of white supremacy

    35:51 Deracializing the crime debate

    39:58 Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World

    50:55 Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another

    1:04:54 Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson

    1:08:06 What affirmative action did right

    Recorded August 26, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Carol and Mike Towle’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World

    Carol’s Godfather III Twitter (now X) post

    Reuters story on Harrison Floyd

    Jason Riley’s book, The Black Boom

    Tucker Carlson’s debate night interview with Donald Trump

    Carol’s book, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration

    Carol and Christopher J. Schorr’s book, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory Is Burning Down the House


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    John McWhorter – Sixteen Years of "The Black Guys" Aug 25, 2023
    Show notes

    0:00 A sixteen-year-long conversation

    5:45 Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era

    21:19 The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization

    32:56 Glenn pulls rank

    37:59 Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute

    50:15 Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia?

    Recorded August 19, 2023

    Links and Readings

    Glenn and John’s first conversation from November 7, 2007

    John’s book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

    John’s book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

    Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

    Martin Peretz’s memoir, The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left, Right, and Center

    Jeffrey O.C. Ogbar’s book, Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap

    Charles Murray’s book, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

    Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life


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