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    1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published

    7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing

    9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment

    17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024

    23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets?

    31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008

    35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists

    39:26 Secular backsliding in India

    43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive order

    Recorded January 25, 2025

    Links and Readings

    Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

    Rajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover”

    James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    Glenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorship

    Glenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality”

    Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversation

    Rajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment”

    Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat”

    Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit”

    John Cochrane’s review of Late Admissions

    Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution

    Gyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, Kismet

    Rajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice



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    In this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference.

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    1:08 Intros

    4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign

    9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings

    15:31 Ground News ad

    17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy?

    23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war

    30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold?

    33:28 ACTA ad

    38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war

    48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US?

    52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war

    56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent?

    1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora

    1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war?

    1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025

    Links and Readings

    Trailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking History

    Matthew’s YouTube show, History Speaks

    Airwars

    Airwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm report

    Yuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza”

    Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets”

    Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”

    Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X

    Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

    Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza”



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    In this post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.

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    0:55 Peter’s new book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop

    5:27 Why policing went off the rails over the last decade

    11:03 Peter: I’m done with police abolitionists

    19:22 Why don’t we hear about unarmed black men getting shot anymore?

    22:00 Remembering the lessons of ‘90s New York

    28:07 Dealing with the racial disparity problem

    35:46 Is there a suicide problem among cops?

    39:31 The Ferguson Effect

    43:12 The utility of pretextual stops

    48:29 The pride felt by the 1990s NYPD

    50:30 What cops think of Darren Wilson and Derek Chauvin

    Recorded January 10, 2025

    Links and Readings

    Peter’s forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop

    Peter’s book, In Defense of Flogging

    Peter’s book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District

    Tracy Mears on police legitimacy and the future of policing

    Heather Mac Donald’s book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

    Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer’s paper, “Policing the Police: The Impact of ‘Pattern-or-Practice’ Investigations on Crime”



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    In this post-show bonus episode with Nikita, Mark, and LaJuan, we talk about what's required of a black intellectual, shifting alliances and ideological orientations, and the utility of the police.

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    I'm reposting an episode of the Invisible Men podcast, hosted by Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors. They had me on to talk about Late Admissions, the bias and development narratives, and a lot more. Ian and Nique have a stellar lineup of guests who are having the important conversations about race in America, so check them out at invisible.men. You can find video of this episode there or at my newsletter, https://glennloury.substack.com.

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    0:00 Intro

    1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain

    2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”

    9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse

    12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”

    19:17 Ground News ad

    21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right

    26:24 The hard truths of global competition

    30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?

    36:09 ACTA ad

    38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status

    44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline

    46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?

    Recorded January 5, 2025

    Links and Readings

    Charles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”

    Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

    JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    Matt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal style

    Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship

    Richard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

    Trailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy



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    It may be cold outside, but the first Q&A of 2025 is a hot one. John and Glenn talk negotiating the modern mediasphere, the German language, education after affirmative action, code switching, social media and AI, and maintaining a friendship in spite of political differences.

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    In retiring from academia, I'm giving up what was once a vital source of intellectual inspiration. How should I go about replacing it? I'm talking through the problem with Nikita and Mark.

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    In this bonus episode, I sit down with my son, Glenn Cartman Loury II, to talk about the big topics: life, death, and change. This is a heavy, real conversation. We “reminisce” about caring for Linda—my wife and Glenn’s mother—during the final stages of terminal cancer. We talk about who we were then, who we are now, and why we work so hard to change our lives. I’m seeking solace from my son, and true solace can only come from confronting reality, rather than turning away from it and taking refuge in comforting illusions.

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    0:00 Intro

    3:01 January 15, “Why Glenn wrote a memoir”

    9:18 February 2, “The three dimensions of black conservatism”

    15:50 Ground News ad

    17:52 February 16, “Were Glenn and John too credulous about The Fall of Minneapolis?”

    23:07 March 22, “What do we mean by 'colorblindness' today?”

    34:39 April 5, “John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first”

    37:40 May 17, “Has Israel gone too far in Gaza?”

    41:53 ACTA ad

    44:07 June 14, “Inside the collapse of Ibram X. Kendi’s research center”

    49:22 June 28, “Can John account for his 'emotional and irrational conclusions' about Trump and his recent conviction?”

    59:35 August 16, “Glenn: Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama”

    1:05:08 August 28, “Vladimir X asks Glenn and John about Gaza”

    1:18:19 October 11, “Glenn: Ta-Nehisi Coates's book is brilliant”

    1:26:32 October 25, “John: Coates is a beautiful writer, BUT …”

    1:28:54 November 4, “A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)”

    1:35:47 November 22, “Glenn: Wake up! It’s time to take Trump seriously!”



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    0:00 The uncertain future of AI

    4:46 What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China?

    8:15 The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence

    12:01 The international policy challenges of AI

    14:32 Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine?

    18:46 Are there any good argument for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?

    23:55 Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy

    28:29 The continuing assault on Gaza

    32:33 Antiwar speech codes

    37:57 Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing

    43:15 Missed opportunities to turn the temperature down in Israel

    51:29 Bob: The international community has little sway over Israel

    54:25 The advantages of cognitive empathy

    Recorded December 17, 2024

    Links and Readings

    Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter

    Nonzero on YouTube

    Thomas Nagel’s essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

    Bob’s most recent conversation with Thomas Friedman

    Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

    Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

    Ilan Papé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

    Bob’s Nonzero essay, “The Truth about Hamas”

    Bob’s 2002 Slate essay, “Was Arafat the Problem?”



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    LaJuan has appeared in a handful of episodes, but I don’t feel like you really know her yet. I wanted to use this episode to introduce you to my lovely wife. We talk about how her difficult early life shaped her political views, how she developed her love of reading and ideas, her alienation from Democrats and the liberal center, and her personal connection to Beyoncé.

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    1:33 Demonization on the right and the left

    6:23 Is Trump’s election the nail in the coffin for DEI?

    13:50 John: It’s no use pretending that racism in America is as bad as it was 50 years ago

    16:33 Ground News ad

    18:36 Has Elon Musk “encouraged” or “permitted” more racism on X?

    19:30 John: It’s a tragedy that Jordan Neely died, but he needed to be restrained

    30:12 If Daniel Penny had been a cop

    34:05 ACTA ad

    36:18 The glorification of Luigi Mangione

    47:06 Cheering for the villain

    55:43 Will New York remain a sanctuary city?

    Recorded December 13, 2024

    Links and Readings

    John’s NYT column, “How to Dangerously Misread a Very Important Verdict”

    Briahna Joy Gray and Nathan Robinson on Luigi Mangione



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    Right after I taped this week’s episode with John McWhorter, I got on a call with my creative director Nikita Petrov, expecting some follow ups.

    We talked about Syria, the world’s reaction to Trump’s victory, P. Diddy’s parties, the reasons the labor movement never got the same kind of momentum in the US as it did in Western Europe, and more. But we started by connecting two topics from my conversation with John: the surprisingly cheerful reactions to a killing of an insurance firm CEO in New York, and the seeming demise of DEI as a movement.

  • Normally, free subscribers to the newsletter and podcast have to wait until Friday receive the new episode. And normally Q&A sessions with John McWhorter, in which we answer questions posed by the audience, are only available to full subscribers. But today is no normal day—I’m releasing our Q&A from last month to everyone.

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    Mike Spooner wants to know how I came around to supporting Trump

    Substack Reader wants to know if Trump’s reelection signals that we’re entering an era where “reason and common sense once again prevail.”

    Michoel Stern senses that I’m becoming more isolationist, and that I don’t want America to be the world’s policeman. So what is the alternative?

    Robert Odear asks if there is “an accepted metric for linguistic complexity,” and if there is one, whether linguistically complex societies also tend to be advanced societies.

    Nancy wants to know if the triumph over “wokeness” represented by Trump’s election is being felt on campus.

    Jonathan E. Burack wants to know why I haven’t responded to this review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.

    Pete Bradshaw asks what we think of the use of political slurs like “fascist,” “Hitler,” and “commie.”

    Cara C. suggests that, while it was wrong for Democrats to use lawfare against Trump, it is acceptable for Republicans to use it against Democrats, if only to teach them a lesson.

    Recorded December 1, 2024



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    0:00 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

    0:45 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John

    6:50 Glenn the patriarch

    10:35 John Lewis’s legacy

    15:48 Ground News ad

    17:49 From John Lewis to Stokely Carmichael to Jesse Jackson to BLM

    25:21 To isolate or to integrate?

    27:41 What black activism could have been

    32:02 John: The Black Panthers accomplished nothing

    40:04 ACTA ad

    42:18 James Baldwin’s “nutty” late work

    44:45 James Q. Wilson’s prescient attitude toward Glenn’s leftward shift

    52:43 The “conservative” absence at the National Museum of African American History

    55:11 John’s investigation of contemporary Yiddish speakers

    Recorded December 1, 2024

    Links and Readings

    David Greenberg’s book, John Lewis: A Life

    Barbara Fields and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton’s book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

    Trailer for Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro

    James Baldwin’s book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values

    John DiIulio Jr.’s review of Late Admissions in the Claremont Review of Books

    John’s NYT column, “Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That’s Thrillingly Alive”



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    In this post-show recording with Mark and Nikita, I talk about the holiday blues, the contradictions of racial heterodoxy and racial self-identification, and learning from Yiddish-speakers.

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    0:47 The Jabbari Lincoln Files, Yaya’s audio spy thriller

    5:40 Is Jabbari Lincoln a fictional surrogate for Yaya?

    10:05 How Yaya joined the CIA

    16:18 What does a CIA analyst do, anyway?

    20:42 The lessons of the WMDs debacle

    23:08 A Muslim convert at the Agency

    28:40 How the 2005 London Underground bombings got Yaya interested in counterterrorism

    30:28 Terrorist recruitment and the search for self

    35:57 Why Yaya doesn’t use the term “Islamophobia”

    38:52 Yaya: Not even freedom fighters have license to kill with impunity

    45:06 What would Malcolm X think about African American support of Palestinians?

    52:22 Working for the CIA in the post-COINTELPRO era

    Recorded November 9, 2024

    Links and Readings

    1776 Unites

    The Jabarri Lincoln Files

    Sam Greenlee’s novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film adaptation of The Spook Who Say by the Door

    Yaya’s essay for the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Hamas Are Not Muslim Freedom Fighters”

    December 2, 1963 NYT article on Malcolm X’s “Chickens coming home to roost” comment

    Yaya’s other podcast, Designated



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