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The Economics of Coronavirus (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
Why quarantine is not enough ... Larry's proposal for a universal mandatory testing regime ... Glenn pushes back on Larry's plan on economic and…
6 years, 4 months ago
A Corona Contrarian (Glenn Loury & Heather Mac Donald)
Heather argues that we are overreacting to the coronavirus ... Heather: "Everyone should be a capitalist in a pandemic" ... Public goods and expon…
6 years, 4 months ago
Trump vs. COVID-19 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
How COVID-19 is affecting Glenn and John’s semester ... The mass psychology of coronavirus-inspired shutdowns ... Glenn: The social justice implica…
6 years, 4 months ago
Anti-Semitism, Israel-Palestine, and Bernie (Glenn Loury & Robert Cherry)
The recent spike in assaults on ultra-Orthodox Jews in NYC ... Is anti-Semitism or something else the root cause? ... Bob: The demonization of Isr…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Case for Charter Schools (Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe)
Ian describes the charter school network he runs ... How teachers are treated in charters vs. in public schools ... Ian rebuts the charge that char…
6 years, 4 months ago
Looking Back (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi)
Glenn's landmark 1977 paper, "A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences" ... Glenn's theory of "relations before transactions" ... Critics ac…
6 years, 5 months ago
Immigration and Race (Glenn Loury, Ernesto Cortés, Jr., and Peter Skerry)
Do blacks and Latinos have aligning interests? ... Ernesto: Immigrants have an irrational belief in the American dream ... Debating the benefits of…
6 years, 5 months ago
Revisiting the 1619 Project (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
John: The central claim of the NYT's 1619 Project "simply isn't true" ... Glenn offers a defense of the Project's perspective ... What the Constit…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Souls of Yellow Folk (Glenn Loury & Wesley Yang)
Wesley's new book of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk ... The meaning of Andrew Yang as an Asian American ... Ivy League admissions, intermarriage…
6 years, 5 months ago
What Does MLK Day Mean Now? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
John: The racial conversation has improved over the past decade ... Decrying the "racism" explanation when black people don't succeed in a given fi…
6 years, 6 months ago