The Glenn Show

By Glenn Loury

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Episodes: 255


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Mike H
 Jan 7, 2019
I like the content. Listening to someone who gives facts the primary weight in an argument is refreshing. My quibble is with the sound quality. Almost impossible to listen in a car......Please fix this.

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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

Episode Date
John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race
Mar 22, 2024
Matthew Martens – A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform
Mar 15, 2024
Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs
Mar 08, 2024
John McWhorter & Shane Hachey – Crime and Disorder in Minneapolis
Mar 01, 2024
Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago
Feb 23, 2024
Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode]
Feb 18, 2024
John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered
Feb 16, 2024
Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus
Feb 09, 2024
Noam Dworman – Friendship in a Time of War (Bonus Episode)
Feb 04, 2024
John McWhorter – Is DEI on Its Way Out?
Feb 02, 2024
David Kaiser – States of the Union
Jan 26, 2024
Ilya Shapiro, Robert George & Randall Kennedy – Clarence Thomas: Black American Icon
Jan 19, 2024
John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK
Jan 15, 2024
Omer Bartov – Israel's Hard Right Turn
Jan 12, 2024
John McWhorter – The Best of Glenn and John 2023
Jan 05, 2024
Philip Howard – Getting Unions Out of Government
Dec 29, 2023
John McWhorter, Liz Collin & JC Chaix – Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd
Dec 22, 2023
Tabia Lee – An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out
Dec 15, 2023
John McWhorter – The Truth about George Floyd's Death
Dec 08, 2023
November 2023 Q&A
Dec 06, 2023
Erec Smith – Free Black Thought
Dec 01, 2023
John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner & Tyler Austin Harper – The Gaza War and the Crisis of Liberalism
Nov 24, 2023
Robert Wright – The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists (Bonus Episode)
Nov 19, 2023
Yascha Mounk – The Identity Trap
Nov 17, 2023
Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia
Nov 10, 2023
October 2023 Q&A
Nov 08, 2023
John McWhorter – Thinking Through the Gaza War
Nov 03, 2023
John Mearsheimer – America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine
Oct 27, 2023
John McWhorter & Coleman Hughes – The Colorblindness Controversy and Israel-Hamas
Oct 20, 2023
Randall Kennedy & Renu Mukherjee – A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross
Oct 13, 2023
September 2023 Q&A
Oct 11, 2023
John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal
Oct 06, 2023
Sabrina Salvati & LaJuan Loury – Dems Take Fire from the Left
Sep 29, 2023
John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – How the Race Game Is Played
Sep 22, 2023
Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation
Sep 15, 2023
John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?
Sep 08, 2023
August 2023 Q&A
Sep 06, 2023
Carol Swain – The Adversity of Diversity
Sep 01, 2023
John McWhorter – Sixteen Years of "The Black Guys"
Aug 25, 2023
Haim Shweky – An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front
Aug 18, 2023
John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness
Aug 11, 2023
July 2023 Q&A
Aug 09, 2023
Jay Caspian Kang – Affirmative Elitism
Aug 04, 2023
John McWhorter and Peter Arcidiacono – The Economics of SFFA v. Harvard
Jul 28, 2023
Matt Johnson – The Lessons of Christopher Hitchens
Jul 21, 2023
John McWhorter – The End of Race-Based Affirmative Action
Jul 14, 2023
June 2023 Q&A
Jul 12, 2023
Jay Bhattacharya – Rewriting the COVID Narrative
Jul 07, 2023
Cornel West – The Presidential Aspirations of Cornel West
Jun 30, 2023
Sally Satel – The Ethics of Selling a Kidney (Bonus Episode)
Jun 25, 2023
John McWhorter & Jonathan Rieder – Canceling "Culture in America"
Jun 23, 2023
Robert Cherry – The State of the Black Family
Jun 16, 2023
John McWhorter – How Should We Memorialize the Past?
Jun 09, 2023
Charles Love & Donique Rolle – Teaching Black History without CRT
Jun 02, 2023
May 2023 Q&A
Jun 01, 2023
John McWhorter – Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely
May 26, 2023
Nikita Petrov – How Substack Can Solve Online Censorship (Bonus Episode)
May 21, 2023
Norman Finkelstein – The "Triple Scam" of Wokeness
May 19, 2023
John McWhorter – What Made Omar?
May 08, 2023
Heather Mac Donald – When Race Trumps Merit
May 05, 2023
April Q&A
May 04, 2023
John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt – I Feel, Therefore I Am
Apr 28, 2023
Daniel Bessner – The End of the American Century
Apr 21, 2023
John McWhorter and Ian Rowe – Who Speaks for Black America?
Apr 14, 2023
Jonathan Rauch – A Liberal Defense of Free Speech
Apr 07, 2023
David Sacks and Spencer Segal – Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law
Mar 31, 2023
March Q&A
Mar 30, 2023
John McWhorter – From Equity to Equality
Mar 24, 2023
Sylvester Gates – Diversifying the Scientific Imagination
Mar 17, 2023
John McWhorter – The Private Side of Public Life
Mar 06, 2023
Oded Galor – The Journey of Humanity
Mar 03, 2023
John McWhorter and Vincent Lloyd – Domination and Anti-Blackness
Feb 24, 2023
Delano Squires – Black, Christian, and Conservative
Feb 17, 2023
John McWhorter & Peter Moskos – The Killing of Tyre Nichols
Feb 10, 2023
Ernesto Cortes – The Organizer Mindset
Feb 03, 2023
John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond
Jan 27, 2023
Steven Koonin – Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions
Jan 20, 2023
The Best of Glenn and John 2022
Jan 13, 2023
Michael Sandel – The Tyranny of Merit
Jan 06, 2023
John McWhorter and Greg Thomas – Debating Deracialization
Dec 30, 2022
Hamish McKenzie – Speaking Out in an Age of Partisan Rancor
Dec 23, 2022
John McWhorter – How Should We Handle Antisemitism?
Dec 16, 2022
Richard Wolff and LaJuan Loury – Capitalism vs. Socialism
Dec 09, 2022
John McWhorter and James Beaman – A Peek Behind the Antiracist Curtain
Dec 02, 2022
Kmele Foster, Robert Woodson, Shelby Steele & Reihan Salam – The Ethics of Black Identity
Nov 25, 2022
John McWhorter – The Wake of the "Red Wave"
Nov 18, 2022
Rob Montz – The Heterodox Docs of Rob Montz
Nov 11, 2022
John McWhorter – The Golden Age of Black Heterodoxy
Nov 04, 2022
A Tribute to John McWhorter
Oct 30, 2022
Rafael Mangual – Criminal (In)Justice
Oct 28, 2022
John McWhorter – The Racist Taunt That Wasn't
Oct 21, 2022
Matt Rosenberg – Chicago's Drift Toward Dystopia
Oct 14, 2022
John McWhorter and Don Baton – DEI in the Orchestral World
Oct 07, 2022
Lara Bazelon – The Fight for Due Process under Title IX
Sep 30, 2022
John McWhorter & Ian Rowe – F.R.E.E. Agency
Sep 23, 2022
Larry Kotlikoff – What Explains Persistent Racial Inequality?
Sep 16, 2022
John McWhorter – Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing
Sep 09, 2022
Steve McIntosh – The Cultural Dimensions of American Conflict
Sep 02, 2022
Amy Wax – Freedom of Inquiry on the Line
Aug 26, 2022
John McWhorter – Rewriting the Script on Race
Aug 19, 2022
Reihan Salam – Meet the Manhattan Institute
Aug 12, 2022
John McWhorter & Richard Wolff – Capitalism and Democracy in Post-Industrial America
Aug 05, 2022
Stephon Alexander – Fear of a Black Universe
Jul 29, 2022
John McWhorter – Race and Conservatism: Walker, Thomas, and Wax
Jul 22, 2022
Rajiv Sethi – Our Gun Problem
Jul 15, 2022
Bonus Episode: Glenn and John at Heterodox Academy
Jul 10, 2022
Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar
Jul 08, 2022
Nikita Petrov – Who Is Responsible for the Russia-Ukraine War?
Jul 01, 2022
John McWhorter – Rejecting the Tokenism of "Diversity"
Jun 24, 2022
Jonathan Haidt – After Babel
Jun 17, 2022
John McWhorter – Race and Inequality across the Atlantic
Jun 10, 2022
Robert Woodson & Sylvia Bennett-Stone – Voices of Black Mothers United + Glenn's Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech
Jun 03, 2022
John McWhorter – The Immigration Debate after Buffalo
May 27, 2022
Daniel Kaufman – What Is Social Science?
May 20, 2022
John McWhorter & Edmund Santurri – Cancellation at St. Olaf College
May 13, 2022
Briahna Joy Gray – Debating Progressive Policy
May 06, 2022
Greg Thomas – A Future for Black Tradition
Apr 25, 2022
Stephanie Lepp – The Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual
Apr 18, 2022
John McWhorter – Trayvon Martin, 10 Years Later
Apr 15, 2022
TGS Live at the Comedy Cellar
Apr 04, 2022
Sam Harris – Matters of Race, Matters of Mind
Mar 28, 2022
Matt Taibbi and John McWhorter – What Is Putin Thinking?
Mar 21, 2022
Daniel Bessner – Ukraine and American Decline
Mar 15, 2022
John McWhorter – Capital Offenses
Mar 07, 2022
Matt Rosenberg – What Next, Chicago?
Feb 28, 2022
John McWhorter – The Problem with Racial Preferences
Feb 21, 2022
Remembrance of Glenns Past
Feb 16, 2022
Steven Rhoads - The Economist's View of the World
Feb 14, 2022
John McWhorter – Race, Representation, and the Supreme Court
Feb 08, 2022
Laurence Kotlikoff – Money Magic
Jan 31, 2022
John McWhorter – The Burdens of Black Freedom
Jan 24, 2022
Heather Mac Donald – Which Black Lives Matter?
Jan 18, 2022
John McWhorter – Are There More Capitol Riots to Come?
Jan 11, 2022
Robert Woodson – How to Restore Impoverished Communities
Jan 04, 2022
John McWhorter – The Best of "The Black Guys" 2021
Dec 27, 2021
Amy Wax – Contesting American Identity
Dec 21, 2021
John McWhorter – Unsettling the "Settled Questions"
Dec 13, 2021
A Response to "Simone"
Dec 08, 2021
Rav Arora – Race and Crime after the Summer of 2020
Dec 07, 2021
John McWhorter — Anger, Shame, Sadness, and Race in America
Nov 30, 2021
Laurence Kotlikoff — Fending Off Inflation
Nov 22, 2021
The Double Life, Once More
Nov 21, 2021
John McWhorter — Systemic Racism's Greatest Hits
Nov 15, 2021
Whose Fourth of July?: Black Patriotism and Racial Inequality in America
Nov 08, 2021
John McWhorter and Randall Kennedy — Say It Loud!
Nov 02, 2021
Thoughts on the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Oct 25, 2021
Wai Wah Chin — The NYC Exam School Controversy
Oct 18, 2021
John McWhorter — Authentically Black
Oct 11, 2021
David E. Kaiser — The Case against "The Case for Reparations"
Oct 04, 2021
John McWhorter — The Past and Future of Black Political Leadership
Sep 27, 2021
Robert Wright — Non-Zero-Sum Thinking on the World Stage
Sep 20, 2021
Daniel Bessner — American Empire before and after 9/11
Sep 13, 2021
John McWhorter — Reckoning with the Relics of Racism
Sep 06, 2021
Nikita Petrov — Psychedelic Economics
Aug 30, 2021
John McWhorter — A Walk Down Memory Lane
Aug 23, 2021
Briahna Joy Gray — Are Disparities Caused by "Culture"?
Aug 16, 2021
John McWhorter — What’s “Systemic” about “Systemic Racism”?
Aug 09, 2021
Lara Bazelon — Parents, Children, and Systemic Racism
Aug 02, 2021
Jason Riley and John McWhorter — The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell
Jul 26, 2021
Richard Epstein — Contesting Obama's Footprint
Jul 19, 2021
John McWhorter — Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory
Jul 12, 2021
Burdens of Freedom
Jul 05, 2021
Rejecting Racial Determinism
Jul 02, 2021
Facing Reality
Jun 21, 2021
Race and Classics
Jun 14, 2021
Cornel West, Teodros Kiros & Moving to Substack
Jun 07, 2021
Falling into the Fiscal Gap (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
May 28, 2021
The Etiology of Victimology (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 21, 2021
How Mothers are Working to End Street Violence (Glenn Loury & Sylvia Bennett-Stone)
May 14, 2021
Anti-Anti-Racism in U.S. Schools (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 07, 2021
The Work: a New Frontier for The Glenn Show (Glenn Loury & Nikita Petrov)
Apr 30, 2021
The Slippery Slope to Hell (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Apr 23, 2021
What Happened to Civil Rights? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Apr 02, 2021
John Rawls at 100 (Glenn Loury & Joshua Cohen)
Mar 26, 2021
Racism at Georgetown? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Mar 19, 2021
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 4 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Mar 12, 2021
In Defense of Knowledge (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Mar 05, 2021
How to Avert the Apocalypse (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
Feb 26, 2021
The Pitfalls of Dissent (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Feb 19, 2021
Wokeism's Postmodern Roots (Glenn Loury & James Lindsay)
Feb 12, 2021
Wokebusters (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Feb 05, 2021
What's Driving the Upsurge in Urban Homicides? (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry)
Jan 30, 2021
Reckoning with the Capitol Riot (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Jan 22, 2021
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 3 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Jan 15, 2021
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Jan 01, 2021
Who's Afraid to Debate Glenn Loury? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Dec 25, 2020
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 1 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Dec 18, 2020
The Warm Cloak of Victimhood (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Dec 11, 2020
The Dark Matter of Developmental Psychology (Glenn Loury & James Heckman)
Dec 04, 2020
Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Nov 27, 2020
'Liberties,' a New Journal (Glenn Loury & Leon Wieseltier)
Nov 16, 2020
The Creators of "What Killed Michael Brown?" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Steele, and Shelby Steele)
Nov 09, 2020
Trump's Democrats (Glenn Loury & Jon Shields)
Nov 03, 2020
Free Speech in Academia (Glenn Loury, Carlos Carvalho, and Richard Lowery)
Oct 26, 2020
What Killed Michael Brown? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Oct 19, 2020
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? (Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani)
Oct 15, 2020
The Meritocracy Trap (Glenn Loury & Daniel Markovits)
Oct 05, 2020
Get Educated (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe)
Sep 29, 2020
Chronicling the Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Sep 25, 2020
Recalibrating Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
Sep 18, 2020
Discrimination at Harvard? (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
Sep 10, 2020
The End of Wokeness (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Sep 01, 2020
The Rare and Elusive Conservative Academic (Glenn Loury & Steven Teles)
Aug 29, 2020
Police Defunding and Its Discontents (Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos)
Aug 24, 2020
Crises in Chicago (Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein)
Aug 20, 2020
The Economics of Covid Management (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
Aug 14, 2020
The Politics of School Reopenings (Glenn Loury & Michele Kerr)
Aug 09, 2020
The IQ Taboo (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax)
Jul 31, 2020
The Dark Arts (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Jul 23, 2020
Braver Angels (Glenn Loury & John Wood, Jr.)
Jul 09, 2020
The Unraveling (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Jul 04, 2020
A Life in History (Glenn Loury & David Kaiser)
Jun 30, 2020
Black Faces, Black Interests (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain)
Jun 23, 2020
Dropping the Mask (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes)
Jun 18, 2020
The Viruses (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Jun 10, 2020
Teaching Under Lockdown (Glenn Loury & Michele Kerr)
Jun 08, 2020
A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation (Glenn Loury & Joshua Cohen)
Jun 04, 2020
Cops and Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 29, 2020
Affirmative Action for Americans? (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax)
May 18, 2020
The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas (Glenn Loury & Michael Pack)
May 11, 2020
The 1619 Project's Pulitzer (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
May 06, 2020
The Science of the Virus (Glenn Loury & C. Brandon Ogbunu)
May 04, 2020
The Pandemic in Prisons (Glenn Loury & Josiah Rich)
Apr 30, 2020
The Policy Response to the Pandemic (Glenn Loury, Harold Pollack, and Steven Teles)
Apr 27, 2020
Islands of Excellence (Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.)
Apr 21, 2020
Race and the Virus (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Apr 14, 2020
Corona Taboos (Glenn Loury & Wilfred Reilly)
Apr 10, 2020
A Better Way (Glenn Loury & Danielle Allen)
Apr 06, 2020
Gimme Shelter (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Mar 30, 2020
Your Money or Your Life (Glenn Loury & Harold Pollack)
Mar 26, 2020
Coronavirus and Inequality (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi)
Mar 24, 2020
The Economics of Coronavirus (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
Mar 19, 2020
A Corona Contrarian (Glenn Loury & Heather Mac Donald)
Mar 17, 2020
Trump vs. COVID-19 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Mar 13, 2020
Anti-Semitism, Israel-Palestine, and Bernie (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry)
Mar 03, 2020
The Case for Charter Schools (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe)
Feb 29, 2020
Looking Back (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi)
Feb 20, 2020
Immigration and Race (Glenn Loury, Ernesto Cortés, Jr., and Peter Skerry)
Feb 11, 2020
Revisiting the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Feb 03, 2020
The Souls of Yellow Folk (Glenn Loury & Wesley Yang)
Jan 31, 2020
What Does MLK Day Mean Now? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Jan 21, 2020
Critiquing "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Glenn Loury & Scott Gerber)
Jan 13, 2020
The New Culture Wars (Glenn Loury & Meghan Daum)
Jan 04, 2020
Crime, Justice, and Reform (Glenn Loury & Peter Moskos)
Dec 23, 2019
What Should Be Out of Bounds? (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
Dec 19, 2019
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case, Part Two (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Dec 11, 2019
Revisiting the Trayvon Martin Case (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Dec 06, 2019
Who Really Pays Taxes? (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
Nov 30, 2019
The Economics of Fighting Climate Change (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
Nov 20, 2019
The Free Market, Impeachment, and NeverTrumpers (Glenn Loury & Steven Teles)
Nov 14, 2019
"It's Hard to Be an Individual" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Nov 08, 2019
Debating the Case for "Black Optimism" (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes)
Oct 25, 2019
Back and Still Black (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Oct 11, 2019
Truth, Justice, and Racial Equality (Edmund Santurri & Glenn Loury)
Oct 03, 2019
A Politics of Humility, Forgiveness, and Love (Glenn Loury & John Wood, Jr.)
Sep 23, 2019