Glenn Loury
The Glenn Show
Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury. glennloury.substack.com
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Jul 10, 2026
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John McWhorter – Campus Protests at Semester's End 17.05.2024 47:02
ORDER 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 end of a tumultuous semester 4:39 The willful misreadings of John’s criticisms of the student protests 9:26 There are wars all over the world. Why so much fervor around Israel-Palestine? 16:40 Ground News ad 18:41 Has Israel go...
John McWhorter – Four Years of George Floyd 10.05.2024 1:51:44
Click the timestamp to go to the indicated clip in this YouTube video, click the title to go to the video from which the clip was pulled 0:00 : Intro from Glenn 2:15 : Cops and Race - May 29, 2020 10:09 : The Viruses - June 9, 2020 16:39 : A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation - June 3, 2020 21:14 : The Slippery Slope to Hell - April 23, 2021 27:10 : What Made George Floyd? - June 23, 2022 3...
John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – Compulsory Racial Performance 03.05.2024 57:47
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 A message from Glenn 3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world 12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books 13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance” 18:40 The “mission creep” of identit...
Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis 26.04.2024 1:00:41
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 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway 4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions … 12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions 19:05 The ongoing—and occa...
John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Ideology is Killing American Theater 19.04.2024 1:39:22
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 A message from Glenn 4:00 Why Clifton is planning a one-man show about Thomas Sowell 9:42 The challenge of portraying Sowell onstage 13:45 How Clifton is getting the show off the ground 19:01 The lure of acting 22:43 2020’s affe...
Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex 12.04.2024 1:09:59
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 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin 5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy 9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats 17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech? 2...
A Message from Glenn 11.04.2024 5:29
A message from Glenn concerning his surgery, his recovery, and what you can expect from The Glenn Show over the next month. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe
John McWhorter and Keith Ellison – Prosecuting Derek Chauvin 05.04.2024 58:19
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 Why Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wanted to come on TGS 4:42 Keith’s defense of the George Floyd trials’ verdicts 9:54 John: We weren’t wrong to ask the questions we asked, even if our answers came up short at first 1...
March 2024 Q&A 03.04.2024 10:39
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John answer questions submitted by Substack subscribers in their March 2024 Q&A session. Topics covered: race in America after Trayvon Martin, the Hughes-Balko debate, statistics vs. real life, denunciations of antisemitism, privileged African Americans and oppression, the origin story of Glenn and John...
Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law 29.03.2024 52:36
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 charges Amy faces at Penn 4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself 10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement” 18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy W...
John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race 22.03.2024 59:09
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 word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West 3:32 John’s awards show allergy 6:41 The realness of American Fiction 14:50 Rustin ’s narrow historical vision 21:56 The SATs are on their way back 23:23 Afraid to flagrantl...
Matthew Martens – A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform 15.03.2024 1:16:34
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 Matthew’s theological perspective on criminal justice 5:28 Loving the criminal offender 8:10 25 years for an ounce-and-a-half of marijuana? 14:59 Christianity and the legal use of force 20:39 Matthew: I cannot enter the public s...
Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs 08.03.2024 1:01:56
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 What makes an “elite”? 4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood 7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption 12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force 17:23 The uses of military discipline 22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman...
John McWhorter & Shane Hachey – Crime and Disorder in Minneapolis 01.03.2024 58:48
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 John: Keith Ellison disrespected me 6:45 Did Derek Chauvin get a fair trial? 16:22 Are Glenn and John headed for a confrontation with Ellison? 23:30 Shane’s account of civil decay in Minneapolis 29:24 Shane: The radicals are in...
Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago 23.02.2024 39:51
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 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy 3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society 10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status 18:29 Why Corey supports the police 21:47...
Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode] 18.02.2024 1:05:11
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 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics 7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era 9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative 12:48 The two sides of black “progress” 17:24 Shermichael: Identit...
John McWhorter – "The Fall of Minneapolis" Reconsidered 16.02.2024 58:19
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 What’s wrong with Rhapsody in Blue ? 7:26 Radley Balko’s response to The Fall of Minneapolis , Coleman Hughes, Glenn, and John 17:26 Were Liz Collin and JC Chaix dishonest in their documentary about Derek Chauvin? 19:55 Were Gl...
Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus 09.02.2024 1:04:13
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 pr...
Noam Dworman – Friendship in a Time of War (Bonus Episode) 04.02.2024 1:00:36
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 Why Noam gave Glenn a bag of books about Israel 5:25 Why Glenn felt burned after The Bell Curve 8:49 Loyalty among friends during the Gaza War 13:15 The blowback from Brown’s ceasefire letter 17:18 Talking about Israel across th...
John McWhorter – Is DEI on Its Way Out? 02.02.2024 57:38
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 John: Claudine Gay needed to resign, but her plagiarism wasn’t a mortal sin 6:50 Has DEI taken a hit after the Gay controversy? 13:50 When “DEI” really means “racial preferences” 22:12 The case of Neri Oxman 23:52 John: Bill Ack...
David Kaiser – States of the Union 26.01.2024 1:07:52
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 many, many books of David Kaiser 3:01 David: Claudine Gay is a symptom, not a cause, of what’s wrong at Harvard 6:09 Western Civilization and elitism at Harvard 10:03 Meritorious elitism and luxury elitism 12:35 Intellectua...
Ilya Shapiro, Robert George & Randall Kennedy – Clarence Thomas: Black American Icon 19.01.2024 1:09:27
Preorder Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative wherever you buy your books. If you missed Wednesday’s City Journal and Manhattan Institute-hosted livestream, I’ve got you covered. Today I’m releasing the recording of that livestream as a special bonus episode . This event marked the publication of my City Journal essay “Clarence Thomas and Me,” and I had a stellar line-up alongside...
John McWhorter – Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK 15.01.2024 42:31
0:00 Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative 2:17 Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) 8:59 A ringing endorsement from John 10:00 What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? 15:28 Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” 16:20 What would King have thought of Claudine Gay? 20:20 King’s radicalism 25:54...
Omer Bartov – Israel's Hard Right Turn 12.01.2024 1:10:00
0:00 The long road leading to the Gaza War 9:14 Don’t Palestinians have some responsibility for the current state of affairs? 9:48 The precedent of the 1973 Yom Kippur War 11:26 Omer: Israel only negotiates under pressure 13:31 Netanyahu and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 15:27 The US’s military support for Israel 16:32 The origins of Hamas 20:20 Omer: Netanyahu’s coalition is “a mirror image...
John McWhorter – The Best of Glenn and John 2023 05.01.2024 1:07:53
I had planned to release the first Glenn and John episode of 2024 on New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and John and I could not record as scheduled. So instead, my staff put together this collection of some of our favorite clips from 2023. John and I covered a lot of ground last year. Here you’ll see us addressing African American performance on standardized tests, the Supreme C...
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