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The Glenn Show
by Glenn Loury
Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury. glennloury.substack.com
Episodes
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TGS Live: Daniel Bessner, Ian Lustick, and Eli Clifton on Israel’s Lobby [Free Version]
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sat out last week's livestream, handing hosting duties to historian Daniel Bessner for a conversation with Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton, authors of Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power. Though all three are sharply...
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TGS Live: Daniel Bessner, Ian Lustick, and Eli Clifton on Israel’s Lobby
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sat out last week's livestream, handing hosting duties to historian Daniel Bessner for a conversation with Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton, authors of...
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TGS Live: Warren Smith on Critical Thinking for Influencers
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn talks with filmmaker and YouTuber Warren Smith, author of A Mind of Your Own: Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation, a guide for young people navigating claims on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Executive producer Robert...
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TGS Live: Warren Smith and Robert Patton-Spruill on Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation + Glenn on Nikole Hannah-Jones
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn talks with filmmaker and YouTuber Warren Smith, author of A Mind of Your Own: Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation, a guide for young...
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Robert Woodson Sr., 1937-2026
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a tribute to the life and work of Robert Woodson, who passed away on May 19, 2026. I was not able to attend, but I contributed a short remembrance of Bob, which was read beautifully by...
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TGS Live: Sean Stevens and John McWhorter on Campus Free Speech + Q&A [Free Version]
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John host Sean Stevens of FIRE to discuss the organization's College Free Speech Rankings and the methodology behind measuring campus speech climates, alongside concerns about administrations overreaching under the guise of...
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TGS Live: Sean Stevens and John McWhorter on Campus Free Speech + Q&A + Ian Rowe on Nikole Hannah-Jones
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John host Sean Stevens of FIRE to discuss the organization's College Free Speech Rankings and the methodology behind measuring campus speech...
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TGS Live: Roland Fryer on Breaking Through Self-Censorship [Free Version]
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn welcomes economist Roland Fryer—his former student and a John Bates Clark Medal and MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient—for a wide-ranging conversation. Fryer discusses the Carob Trust Prize, a new $1 million award he co-founded with...
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TGS Live: Roland Fryer on Breaking Through Self-Censorship
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn welcomes economist Roland Fryer—his former student and a John Bates Clark Medal and MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient—for a wide-ranging...
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TGS Live: John McWhorter and Nathan Cofnas on Race and Intelligence [Free Version]
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com John McWhorter and Glenn talk with Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher of biology who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism, for a discussion of that affair and Cofnas's own "race realist" views—that racial IQ differences are real and largely innate....
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TGS Live: John McWhorter and Nathan Cofnas on Race and Intelligence
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John McWhorter reflect on 9/11 twenty-five years on, weighing the pride felt in its aftermath against more ambivalent views of America's...
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TGS Live: Ian Rowe, Bradford Wilcox & Delano Squires on Family Structure and Education
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com On this episode of The Glenn Show, Ian Rowe, Bradford Wilcox, and Delano Squires argue that children generally fare best when raised by two married parents in the same household, and that this discussion is too often avoided. Ian and Brad...
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Robert Patton-Spruill – A Wrongheaded Doc about “Black Erasure” in Boston [Bonus Episode]
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, Glenn and TGS co-producer Robert Patton-Spruill talk about Sabrina Salvati's documentary Removed: Black Erasure in Boston, and how his own attempt to build affordable housing in Boston's Roxbury...
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John McWhorter & Tess Chakkalakal – Was the First Black Novelist Actually Black?
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Earlier this summer, I had Tess Chakkalakal, professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College and author of A Matter of Complexion, a wonderful biography of the writer Charles Chesnutt, on the livestream. That stream was for…
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The John Show Live: The Jason Arday Affair
Support The Glen Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last Friday, with Glenn still on the other side of the world, John McWhorter slid into the host chair for the weekly livestream. The major topic under discussion was the career and death of Jason Arday. As most of you probably know, we cut…
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Jason Arday and Elite Academia’s Rarefied Air
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Due to travel, I wasn’t able to offer my thoughts on the Jason Arday affair as its sad final chapter unfolded. In lieu of a full-length…
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John McWhorter and Tyler Austin Harper – Why Tyler Left Academia
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John McWhorter sit down with Tyler Austin Harper, whose Atlantic cover story documents his decision to resign from a tenure-track position at Bates College. Harper offers an insider's account of an institution compromising...
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TGS Live: Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Israel and Palestine (with John McWhorter)
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Buy Norman Finkelstein's new book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places Nearly three years after October 7th, Glenn and John McWhorter host two guests with sharply opposing views on Israel and Gaza — in succession...
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TGS Live: Delano Squires on Rebuilding the Black Family
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn welcomes back Delano Squires, director of the Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable....
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TGS Live: John Mcwhorter on Race and Test Scores + Subscriber Q&A
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John McWhorter open with John's recent New York Times column on Stuyvesant High School's vanishingly small number of black admits. Both reject calls to eliminate the admissions test as racist, arguing the problem is inadequate...
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TGS Live Bonus Episode: Steven Teles on Ideological Diversity on Campus
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sits down with political scientist Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins to discuss one of higher education's most stubborn problems: ideological homogeneity. University faculties lean dramatically further left than the broader population…
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TGS Live: Andrew Day on Trump, Israel, and Iran
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn brings back Andrew Day, senior editor at The American Conservative, to make sense of the war-skeptical right's position on the Iran War. With seventeen Americans already killed and peace talks stalled, Day argues Trump's decision to…
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TGS Live: Karmelo Anthony and the Content of Our Character
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com John McWhorter returns as Glenn and John reflect on the nation's 250th birthday and the state of Black America. Both express disappointment — not at racism's persistence, but at cultural attitudes that continue to hold Black Americans…
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TGS Live: 250 Years of Contradiction with Rajiv Sethi
Subscribe to The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week’s Independence Day installment of The Glenn Show brought the team together—along with special guest Rajiv Sethi—to talk about American identity, broadly conceived, on the occasion of the nation’s 250th birthday. Who were we,...
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June 2026 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com BB asks what Glenn and John think of Steven A. Smith’s political commentary. Russell Harvey wants to know what the role of debate is in our society, and...
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John McWhorter on Karmelo Anthony's Grand Narrative
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Recorded amid Glenn's vacation, this month's conversation with John McWhorter covers New York politics, crime, and culture. They discuss Mayor Zohran Mamdani's growing influence after his endorsed candidates swept their Democratic…
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TGS Live: Robert Wright on an AI-Driven Global Community
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Longtime friend of the show Robert Wright joins Glenn to talk about The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, which argues AI deserves serious attention — including from its doomers. Wright contends that...
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TGS Live: Harvey Mansfield on Where Harvard Went Wrong
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Harvey Mansfield, the eminent political philosopher who spent over seven decades at Harvard, joins Glenn to discuss his new book, Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary that Fell on Deaf Ears. Mansfield argues that Harvard has...
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TGS Live: Michael Poliakoff on Rescuing Civics
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sits down with Michael Poliakoff, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, to discuss the crisis facing American higher education. Despite the university system's extraordinary contributions to innovation and...
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May 2026 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last month, John McWhorter and Glenn explored the latest tranche of questions from full subscribers. They start off talking with TGS writer and editor…
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TGS Live: John McWhorter on a Black Helen of Troy, the Voting Rights Act, and Teen Takeovers in Chicago
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com John McWhorter returns for another wide-ranging conversation, starting with his latest book-in-progress on American English dialects and his remarkable productivity as a writer. From there, Glenn and John tackle the social media…
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TGS Live: An Israeli Historian's Lament for His Country
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sits down with Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov to discuss his new book, Israel: What Went Wrong—a rigorous and deeply personal account of the contradictions at Israel's founding and how they've shaped the country's present....
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TGS Live: Clifton Duncan's Crusade against Philistinism
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn welcomes back actor and writer Clifton Duncan to discuss the challenges facing artists in an era of intense political polarization. Clifton is currently developing a one-man show about the life and work of Thomas Sowell, and also...
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Glenn Loury II – The Past, Present, and Future of the Loury Clan
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Taking a break from headlines, Glenn turns inward — reflecting on family as a source of stability amid political and personal upheaval. He's joined by his son, Glenn Loury II, for one of their occasional recorded conversations. Together…
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TGS Live: Is the Era of U.S. Military Dominance Over?
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn hosted a cross-spectrum foreign policy debate featuring Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid, American Conservative writer Andrew Day, and University of Washington historian Daniel Bessner. The central question: what role should...
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April 2026 Q&A
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Scott Dolan asks what our best path forward is after Trump. Aaron Cara presents a theory about Glenn and John's disagreement over Trump’s presidency. Michael Maloney asks what Glenn and John think of a recent study of deceptiveness and...
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TGS Live: John McWhorter on the A-Hole Theory of Donald Trump
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John McWhorter reunite for their monthly conversation, starting with a familiar disagreement: Trump. John reduces Trump's governing philosophy to one word—"a*****e"—arguing his personality explains his chaotic, norm-breaking…
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TGS Live: Jeffrey Seaman, Robert J. Sampson & Ben Peterson on Crime, Community & Policing
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this episode, Glenn hosts a virtual roundtable on incarceration, crime, deterrence, and community, drawing on two key texts. In the first hour, he spoke with Jeffrey Seaman, co-author of a Fordham Urban Law Review article arguing that...
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Ben Peterson – Governing the Social Commons
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and Ben Peterson discuss his forthcoming book on how informal institutions — families, churches, neighborhoods — maintain social order where law and markets cannot. Peterson argues that reputation enforces norms more effectively than...
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TGS Live: How Far Have Arab Citizens of Israel Come?
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week's livestream featured Robert Cherry, emeritus professor of economics at Brooklyn College and author of a new book, Arab Citizens of Israel: How Far Have They Come? Bob is a labor economist who spent forty years studying...
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March 2026 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this edition of Glenn and John's monthly Q&A sessions, they tackle subscriber questions about funding for the Iran War, Trump Derangement Syndrome,...
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TGS Live: Glenn and John Disagree to Agree on the Iran War
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn and John McWhorter agree the war in Iran is a bad idea—so why can't they agree on anything else? On last week's livestream, the two clashed over what's driving the conflict, how it's being conducted, and whether Trump is capable of...
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Steven Pinker – When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn Loury welcomes Steven Pinker to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. Pinker—author of The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Rationality—explains how “common knowledge”...
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TGS Live: A Dove on the Left, a Dove on the Right, and a Hawk in the Center
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Last week’s livestream presented a panel of guests whose political orientations and positions on the Iran War demonstrate the scrambling effect this conflict is already having on domestic political alliances. On the anti-war side, we have...
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TGS Live: Larry Kotlikoff on Debt, Tariffs, and the Public Role of Economists
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this segment from last week's livestream, Glenn and Boston University economist Larry Kotlikoff talk about the national debt, social security, personal finance, fiscal policy, and China’s seemingly inevitable path to becoming the…
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February 2026 Q&A
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com On this livestreamed edition of the Q&A, John McWhorter and I took questions from full subscribers here at the Substack. Austin Ball asked for our…
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TGS Live: Tyler Austin Harper on the Big Bucks Funding Activism in the Humanities
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com On this segment from my latest livestream, John McWhorter and I are joined by journalist Tyler Austin Harper of the Atlantic. We discuss Tyler's latest piece for the magazine, which focuses on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's influence…
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Chloé Simone – The Dark Side of Identity
The Glenn Show is almost entirely audience-supported. If you’re not yet a full subscriber and want access to livestreams, Q&As, commenting, and other good stuff, click below to support TGS. We can’t do what we do without you. Click here to become a full subscriber. Video Links 0:00 Chloé’s theory...
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TGS Live: Self-Censorship & Public Reason + Chloé Simone on the Future of Identity and Race
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.com Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this episode of The Glenn Show, Glenn hops on the Friday livestream just hours after landing at Logan Airport following a Stanford lecture on...
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TGS Live: A Black Panther's Son Discovers the Free Market
Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com In this excerpt from last Friday's livestream, Glenn formally introduces a familiar face to the audience: Robert Patton-Spruill. A regular presence on and off camera, Rob shares the winding personal and professional journey that shaped…
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