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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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John McWhorter, Charles Murray, Amy Wax, Jordan Peterson & Lex Fridman – The Race and Intelligence Debate
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0:00 A message from Glenn
1:14 Unsettling the “Settled Questions,” Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
2:59 The Race and IQ Question, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
12:19 Facing Reality, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray
21:40 The IQ Taboo, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
31:08 Debate with an Embattled Racial Realist, Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
45:44 The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality, Glenn Loury
48:21 The Dangers of Research into Race & IQ, Glenn Loury & Lex Fridman
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The Memoir Tapes Vol. 1: Stealing a Car, Aunt & Uncle, Church, Winners & Losers, Jekyll & Hyde
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0:00 Intro
2:50 “I got arrested driving a stolen car ...”
9:27 The Regal Auntie Eloise and the Bug-Eyed Uncle Moonie
23:17 “There was a lot of pain that the blood of Jesus was invoked to cover ...”
39:38 Winners & Losers
50:31 Words I Think of When Remembering My Mother
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John McWhorter – Campus Protests at Semester's End
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0:00 The end of a tumultuous semester
4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests
9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine?
16:40 Ground News ad
18:41 Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?
22:32 Should students be forced to listen to protests that might offend them?
35:11 Glenn’s book is out this week!
41:11 An update on Glenn’s recovery and hospital cuisine
Recorded May 11, 2024
Links and Readings
John’s NYT piece, “I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice”
John’s NYT piece, “The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did”
John’s NYT piece, “Why Was This Treasure of Musical Theater All but Lost to the Ages?”
Coleman Hughes and Robert Wright debate Israel-Palestine
Pamela Paul’s NYT piece on Glenn, “He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.”
WSJ’s review of Late Admissions
Tunku Varadarajan’s 2020 WSJ profile of Glenn
WaPo’s review of Late Admissions
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John McWhorter – Four Years of George Floyd
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0:00: Intro from Glenn
2:15: Cops and Race - May 29, 2020
10:09: The Viruses - June 9, 2020
16:39: A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation - June 3, 2020
21:14: The Slippery Slope to Hell - April 23, 2021
27:10: What Made George Floyd? - June 23, 2022
34:21: The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality - April 18, 2022
41:38: The Truth about George Floyd's Death - December 4, 2023
55:51: Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd - December 18, 2023
1:10:29: What the Controversial George Floyd Doc Didn't Show Us - February 16, 2024
1:24:13: Minneapolis after George Floyd - March 1, 2024
1:27:34: Prosecuting Derek Chauvin - April 5, 2024
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John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – Compulsory Racial Performance
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0:00 A message from Glenn
3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world
12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books
13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance”
18:40 The “mission creep” of identity politics
24:23 Tyler Austin Harper University’s admissions policy
28:44 Does diversity contribute to quality of education?
35:18 The trouble with being “the black person” in class
37:38 Diversity at Bates College, where Tyler teaches
41:38 Night fishing with Tyler, insect collecting with John
45:46 Tyler’s prolific social media presence
48:38 Tyler’s five-year plan
52:51 The turn away from obscurantism in the humanities
Recorded April 28, 2024
Links and Readings
Glenn and John’s first conversation with Tyler
Glenn and John talk with Tyler and Daniel Bessner
Mary Shelley’s novel, The Last Man
Tyler’s NYT piece, “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions”
Christopher Lasch’s book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
Richard Hanania’s book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Glenn’s conversation with Peter Arcidiacono
Tyler’s X (formerly Twitter) account
Tyler’s Atlantic piece, “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad”
Jacques Derrida’s essay, “No Apocalypse, Not Now”
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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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