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What's Driving the Upsurge in Urban Homicides? (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry)
Robert's work on rising homicide rates in U.S cities ... The connection between work, school, and crime ... How some criminal justice reform attemp…
5 years, 5 months ago
Reckoning with the Capitol Riot (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Glenn Show 2.0 and reactions to the storming of the Capitol ... What if it was BLM protesters that stormed the Capitol? ... Glenn: I was wrong abo…
5 years, 6 months ago
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 3 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
The three books that pushed Glenn away from the right ... A crisis of identity: who is Glenn Loury and what is his project? ... Glenn's left-leanin…
5 years, 6 months ago
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 2 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
Glenn's rightward shift in the early 80s ... A feeling of alienation from the Black elite ... Glenn and Daniel discuss neoliberalism and the "Amer…
5 years, 6 months ago
Who's Afraid to Debate Glenn Loury? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Why won't Jones, Kendi, and others come on the Glenn Show? ... The need for more discussions between black intellectuals who disagree ... The dilem…
5 years, 7 months ago
Glenn Loury's Intellectual Origins, Part 1 (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
A working-class undergrad with a job, a wife, and two kids ... Why Glenn was drawn to economics ... How studying economics shaped Glenn's politics …
5 years, 7 months ago
The Warm Cloak of Victimhood (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Coleman Hughes named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" ... The predictable platitudes of John's critics ... The waning of wokeness ... Should Thomas Jeffer…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Dark Matter of Developmental Psychology (Glenn Loury & James Heckman)
The political landscape in Chicago in 2020 ... How do you improve a human being? ... What "The Bell Curve" missed about human development ... How …
5 years, 7 months ago
Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
Welcome to the Glenn Show 2.0 ... A path to forgiveness for the canceled ... John’s upcoming book and wokeism after Trump ... Why is it so easy to…
5 years, 8 months ago
'Liberties,' a New Journal (Glenn Loury & Leon Wieseltier)
Leon's new journal Liberties and the current political climate ... Leon: Art "should not be subjected to a political standard" ... Glenn and Leon d…
5 years, 8 months ago