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Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus
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PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses
4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine
9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test
12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem
18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”
21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir
25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling
27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now
30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets
42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree
46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists
49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates
51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings
56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success
Recorded January 26, 2024
Links and Readings
Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table
Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table
Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis
Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table
Benny Morris on Live from the Table
Tara Henley’s Lean Out
Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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