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The Creators of "What Killed Michael Brown?" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Steele, and Shelby Steele)
Glenn announces a new version of The Glenn Show ... Eli and Shelby's new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... "Why is it so hard to see the …
5 years, 8 months ago
Trump's Democrats (Glenn Loury & Jon Shields)
Jon's new book, Trump's Democrats ... Doing ethnography in the Rust Belt, an Italian-American suburb, and Appalachia ... Jon: Trump is a familiar f…
5 years, 8 months ago
Free Speech in Academia (Glenn Loury, Carlos Carvalho, and Richard Lowery)
Glenn critiques attempts to make race a part of academic hiring ... "Optics equality" and the denial of group differences ... Improving low-income…
5 years, 9 months ago
What Killed Michael Brown? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
A tribute from an Israeli fan and a mea culpa from John ... The political influence of Ice Cube and Kanye West ... Shelby Steele’s new documentary,…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? (Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani)
Glenn on the persistence of racial inequality ... Adaner on the persistence of racial inequality ... Determinism vs. individual moral judgment ...…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Meritocracy Trap (Glenn Loury & Daniel Markovits)
Daniel's book, The Meritocracy Trap ... Daniel: Meritocracy props up medical innovation at the expense of health ... Examining meritocracy in econo…
5 years, 9 months ago
Get Educated (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe)
Ian's path from engineering to educational entrepreneurship ... Ian rebuts the "corporate type" charge ... "1776 Unites," an alternative narrative…
5 years, 9 months ago
Chronicling the Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
BLM and the looming threat of political violence ... Can social justice movements redefine what counts as “knowledge”? ... Sympathy and objectivity…
5 years, 10 months ago
Recalibrating Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
Peter: "Mismatch theory" is not a front for racial prejudice ... The problem of data transparency and affirmative action ... Who gets access to af…
5 years, 10 months ago
Discrimination at Harvard? (Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono)
Peter's controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors ... Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum? ... Peter's w…
5 years, 10 months ago