Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show

Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show http://bloggingheads.tv/programs/glenn-show en-US 313739 Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues. Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues. Bloggingheads.tv no https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67288 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67288#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:19:25 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67288 <![CDATA[Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” ... What would King say to Claudine Gay? ... King's radicalism ... John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist ... The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College ... How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal ... Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard” ... How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up ... John’s upcoming cabaret show ... ]]> <![CDATA[Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” ... What would King say to Claudine Gay? ... King's radicalism ... John: Being against DEI does not make you a racist ... The Tabia Lee affair at De Anza College ... How Claudine Gay should have reacted to the plagiarism scandal ... Glenn: “The DEI movement is hoist on its own petard” ... How DEI’s dominance has improved John’s home media set-up ... John’s upcoming cabaret show ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Getting Unions Out of Government (Glenn Loury & Philip Howard) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67207 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67207#respond Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:43:58 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67207 <![CDATA[Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery ... What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? ... Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust ... The problems of national security and public health ... Are public employee unions constitutional? ... Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” ... Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too ... Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery ... What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? ... Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust ... The problems of national security and public health ... Are public employee unions constitutional? ... Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” ... Philip: Police unions prevent accountability, too ... Would the current Supreme Court be receptive to Philip’s case? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67169 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67169#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:24:43 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67169 <![CDATA[Tabia’s early career as a teacher ... Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director ... The antisemitism problem at De Anza ... The inescapable BIPOC binary ... From disagreement to deplatforming ... Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty ... How attempts to silence Tabia backfired ... Tabia’s broad vision of diversity ... Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee ... ]]> <![CDATA[Tabia’s early career as a teacher ... Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director ... The antisemitism problem at De Anza ... The inescapable BIPOC binary ... From disagreement to deplatforming ... Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty ... How attempts to silence Tabia backfired ... Tabia’s broad vision of diversity ... Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Truth about George Floyd's Death (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67137 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67137#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:47:43 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67137 <![CDATA[A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions ... John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? ... Glenn: George Floyd was no hero ... The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct ... Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? ... Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America? ... ]]> <![CDATA[A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions ... John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? ... Glenn: George Floyd was no hero ... The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct ... Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative? ... Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 What Black America Needs to Thrive (Glenn Loury & Erec Smith) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67099 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67099#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:05:43 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67099 <![CDATA[Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ... Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec ... How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community ... Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college ... What is rhetoric, anyway? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ... Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec ... How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community ... Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college ... What is rhetoric, anyway? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67082 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67082#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:14:28 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67082 <![CDATA[The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics ... The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams ... The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” ... The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding ... If not liberalism, then what? ... Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart ... ]]> <![CDATA[The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics ... The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams ... The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea” ... The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding ... If not liberalism, then what? ... Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Identity Trap (Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67044 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67044#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:15:47 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67044 <![CDATA[A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha’s defense of universalism ... ]]> <![CDATA[A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo ... Yascha’s defense of universalism ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 An American Martyr in Persia (Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67009 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67009#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:16:28 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=67009 <![CDATA[Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution ... How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution ... The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran ... The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture ... The internal and external pressures on Iran ... The amorality of foreign policy ... ]]> <![CDATA[Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution ... How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution ... The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran ... The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture ... The internal and external pressures on Iran ... The amorality of foreign policy ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Thinking Through the Gaza War (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66979 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66979#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:21:14 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66979 <![CDATA[Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. ... Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic ... John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict ... Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? ... Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? ... Glenn and John’s responsibilities as teachers ... What’s next on TGS ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. ... Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic ... John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict ... Is it right for people to lose their jobs over opposing Israel? ... Why are pro-Hamas leftists supporting an anti-liberal regime? ... Glenn and John’s responsibilities as teachers ... What’s next on TGS ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine (Glenn Loury & John Mearsheimer) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66940 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66940#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:07:23 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66940 <![CDATA[Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just ... The risk of escalation ... Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West ... Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? ... Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? ... American Russophobia didn’t cause the war, but it’s not helping ... John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal ... The foreign policy establishment’s grip on both Democrats and Republicans ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just ... The risk of escalation ... Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West ... Is it a coincidence that so many recent presidential scandals involve Ukraine? ... Can tolerant liberals tolerate illiberal societies? ... American Russophobia didn’t cause the war, but it’s not helping ... John: If Putin is overthrown, his replacement will probably be even more brutal ... The foreign policy establishment’s grip on both Democrats and Republicans ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66880 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66880#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:14:04 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66880 <![CDATA[Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? ... Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems ... Affirmative action is an elite problem ... Affirmative action as an insurance policy ... The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries ... Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it’s time to stop ... Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action? ... Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions? ... Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education? ... Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university? ... Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? ... Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems ... Affirmative action is an elite problem ... Affirmative action as an insurance policy ... The stigmatization of affirmative action beneficiaries ... Glenn: Affirmative action has been a net positive, but it’s time to stop ... Q&A: Does historical injustice alone justify affirmative action? ... Q&A: Can and should colleges use loopholes to get around Students for Fair Admissions? ... Q&A: Does the “need” for affirmative action say something race or education? ... Q&A: What is the impact of SFFA beyond the university? ... Q&A: What about class-based affirmative action? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66842 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66842#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:46:08 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66842 <![CDATA[What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? ... Disguising failure as victimology ... Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing ... The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal ... John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” ... Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine ... The shame of the Kendi scandal ... ]]> <![CDATA[What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? ... Disguising failure as victimology ... Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing ... The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal ... John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University” ... Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine ... The shame of the Kendi scandal ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Dems Take Fire from the Left (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Sabrina Salvati ) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66790 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66790#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:04:52 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66790 <![CDATA[How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men ... The military-industrial complex and climate change ... Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops ... Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration ... Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another ... Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine” ... How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests ... ]]> <![CDATA[How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men ... The military-industrial complex and climate change ... Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops ... Finding (somewhat) common ground on immigration ... Demilitarizing the police is one thing, defunding the police is another ... Sabby: “We should not be giving money to Ukraine” ... How Sabby deals with disrespectful guests ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 How the Race Game Is Played (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Tyler Austin Harper) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66746 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66746#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:40:07 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66746 <![CDATA[Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action ... Re-weighting and funding the admissions process ... How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? ... Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? ... Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity ... Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati ... ]]> <![CDATA[Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action ... Re-weighting and funding the admissions process ... How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? ... Can we have interpersonal colorblindness without political colorblindness? ... Tyler’s scholarly work about the end of humanity ... Glenn prepares for his conversation with Sabrina Salvati ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Crucible of Desegregation (Glenn Loury & Shep Melnick) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66706 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66706#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:36:50 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66706 <![CDATA[Biden’s new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with claims that education is resegregating ... Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? ... Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education ... Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans ... Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy ... ]]> <![CDATA[Biden’s new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with claims that education is resegregating ... Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? ... Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education ... Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans ... Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Whose Election Narrative? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66664 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66664#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:54:41 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66664 <![CDATA[Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry ... Is wokeness on the wane? ... What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain ... A Democrat by any other name ... John makes a wild prediction about Trump ... ]]> <![CDATA[Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry ... Is wokeness on the wane? ... What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain ... A Democrat by any other name ... John makes a wild prediction about Trump ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Adversity of Diversity (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66649 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66649#respond Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:32:49 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66649 <![CDATA[Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The redefinition of white supremacy ... Deracializing the crime debate ... Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World ... Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another ... Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson ... What affirmative action did right ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The redefinition of white supremacy ... Deracializing the crime debate ... Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World ... Glenn: Affirmative action is one thing, DEI is another ... Clarence Thomas v. Ketanji Brown Jackson ... What affirmative action did right ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 What Were We Thinking in 2007? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66618 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66618#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:57:22 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66618 <![CDATA[A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute ... Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? ... ]]> <![CDATA[A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute ... Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front (Glenn Loury & Haim Shweky) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66584 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66584#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:05:19 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66584 <![CDATA[Haim’s history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire’s lingua franca ... Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in the other ... Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected ... Is the two-state solution dead? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Haim’s history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire’s lingua franca ... Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in the other ... Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected ... Is the two-state solution dead? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66538 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66538#respond Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:59:00 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66538 <![CDATA[The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienced his own cancelation ... America’s exportation of wokeness ... Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? ... John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives ... ]]> <![CDATA[The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienced his own cancelation ... America’s exportation of wokeness ... Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? ... John: Enslaved people did find ways to improve their own lives ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Affirmative Elitism (Glenn Loury & Jay Caspian Kang) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66519 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66519#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:40:42 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66519 <![CDATA[How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed ... Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced ... Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? ... The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework ... Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? ... Why so little outrage over the SCOTUS affirmative action decision? ... When students internalize artificial trauma narratives ... America can’t economically decouple itself from China. Will anti-China rhetoric wane? ... What will and won’t change in the wake of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ... Isn’t there some value to diversity in education? ... ]]> <![CDATA[How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed ... Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced ... Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? ... The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework ... Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? ... Why so little outrage over the SCOTUS affirmative action decision? ... When students internalize artificial trauma narratives ... America can’t economically decouple itself from China. Will anti-China rhetoric wane? ... What will and won’t change in the wake of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ... Isn’t there some value to diversity in education? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Arcidiacono) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66493 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66493#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:36:21 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66493 <![CDATA[Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case ... Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? ... Why Peter got interested in affirmative action ... Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it ... Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions ... The brilliance of Roland Fryer ... Campus diversity after affirmative action ... ]]> <![CDATA[Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case ... Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? ... Why Peter got interested in affirmative action ... Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it ... Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions ... The brilliance of Roland Fryer ... Campus diversity after affirmative action ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Can Hitchens Save the Left? (Glenn Loury & Matt Johnson) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66470 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66470#respond Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:09:41 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66470 <![CDATA[How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Cornel West’s Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed ... What’s worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? ... Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin” ... Was affirmative action ever necessary? ... Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchens’s universalism ... Hitchens’s “fearless liberalism” ... ]]> <![CDATA[How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Cornel West’s Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed ... What’s worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? ... Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin” ... Was affirmative action ever necessary? ... Matt: I wish the left would rediscover Hitchens’s universalism ... Hitchens’s “fearless liberalism” ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The End of Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66450 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66450#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:04:19 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66450 <![CDATA[John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action ... Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment? ... Why are we so focused on elite institutions? ... John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences” ... “You’re pulling the ladder up behind you” is an invalid critique ... John: The fact that racism exists does not justify changing standards ... Why Roland Fryer thinks we should put our money where our mouth is on race and education ... Will the post-Students for Fair Admissions future turn into a Hardship Olympics? ... ]]> <![CDATA[John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action ... Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment? ... Why are we so focused on elite institutions? ... John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences” ... “You’re pulling the ladder up behind you” is an invalid critique ... John: The fact that racism exists does not justify changing standards ... Why Roland Fryer thinks we should put our money where our mouth is on race and education ... Will the post-Students for Fair Admissions future turn into a Hardship Olympics? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 A COVID Dissenter Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Jay Bhattacharya) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66419 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66419#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:39:26 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66419 <![CDATA[The problem with scientific consensus ... Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” ... Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs ... Persuading science skeptics ... How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again? ... Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely ... Are some ideas too dangerous to test? ... Jay: Fauci’s blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him ... ]]> <![CDATA[The problem with scientific consensus ... Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” ... Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs ... Persuading science skeptics ... How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again? ... Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely ... Are some ideas too dangerous to test? ... Jay: Fauci’s blunder was so catastrophic that only history can judge him ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Why Is Cornel West Running for President? (Glenn Loury & Cornel West) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66409 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66409#respond Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:57:12 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66409 <![CDATA[Why Cornel is running for president ... How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home ... Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters ... Is there tension between Cornel’s commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class? ... The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism ... Might Cornel inadvertently hand the election to the Republicans? ... Cornel: Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are wrong, but they’re sincere ... Why Cornel thinks the US is partially culpable for the Ukraine War ... Should Palestinians recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel? ... Cornel’s ideas about the US border ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Cornel is running for president ... How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home ... Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters ... Is there tension between Cornel’s commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class? ... The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism ... Might Cornel inadvertently hand the election to the Republicans? ... Cornel: Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are wrong, but they’re sincere ... Why Cornel thinks the US is partially culpable for the Ukraine War ... Should Palestinians recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel? ... Cornel’s ideas about the US border ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Canceling "Culture in America" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jonathan Rieder) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66361 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66361#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:19:31 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66361 <![CDATA[Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled ... The fragility of liberal arts education ... Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom ... Is there a future for free inquiry? ... John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action ... Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism? ... The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled ... The fragility of liberal arts education ... Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom ... Is there a future for free inquiry? ... John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action ... Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism? ... The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall Kennedy ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Making of a Political Warrior (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66293 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66293#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:03:52 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66293 <![CDATA[Inside the mind of a crack columnist ... The blowback from Norman Finkelstein’s TGS appearance ... Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? ... How did MLK become MLK? ... What’s in a name when that name is “Woodrow Wilson”? ... Glenn: “Clarence Thomas’s name should be on public school buildings” ... ]]> <![CDATA[Inside the mind of a crack columnist ... The blowback from Norman Finkelstein’s TGS appearance ... Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? ... How did MLK become MLK? ... What’s in a name when that name is “Woodrow Wilson”? ... Glenn: “Clarence Thomas’s name should be on public school buildings” ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 How to Teach African American History (Glenn Loury, Charles Love, and Donique Rolle) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66264 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66264#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:54:47 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66264 <![CDATA[Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism ... Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory ... Charles: We are the 97%! ... How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history ... What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say? ... What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history? ... Sexuality’s ever-shifting Overton window ... Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling ... Expanding the canon of historic black figures ... ]]> <![CDATA[Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism ... Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory ... Charles: We are the 97%! ... How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history ... What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say? ... What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history? ... Sexuality’s ever-shifting Overton window ... Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling ... Expanding the canon of historic black figures ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66218 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66218#respond Fri, 26 May 2023 17:17:56 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66218 <![CDATA[John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” ... How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields ... Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … ... … but the New York subway is getting scary ... Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” ... A possible left-wing objection to reparations ... Glenn goes ham on reparations ... ]]> <![CDATA[John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” ... How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields ... Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … ... … but the New York subway is getting scary ... Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” ... A possible left-wing objection to reparations ... Glenn goes ham on reparations ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Why Wokeness Is a Scam (Glenn Loury & Norman Finkelstein) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66173 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66173#respond Fri, 19 May 2023 16:48:42 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66173 <![CDATA[Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? ... Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz ... Is Israel an apartheid state? ... Identifying with Paul Robeson ... Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! ... Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam” ... What’s become of Angela Davis? ... Cornel West's chosen path ... Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick” ... The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama ... South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics ... Would Bernie have won in 2016? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? ... Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz ... Is Israel an apartheid state? ... Identifying with Paul Robeson ... Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! ... Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam” ... What’s become of Angela Davis? ... Cornel West's chosen path ... Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick” ... The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama ... South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics ... Would Bernie have won in 2016? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 I Feel, Therefore I Am (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Mark Goldblatt) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66076 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66076#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:21:14 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66076 <![CDATA[Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism ... Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought ... The “mysticism” of woke thinking ... Learning from Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations ... John breaks his silence on transgender issues ... The political consequences of subjectivism ... Why Mark thinks transgender people are mentally disordered ... What does the T have to do with the LGB? ... Mark: Transgender people deserve respect ... Distinguishing between strategy and reality ... ]]> <![CDATA[Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism ... Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought ... The “mysticism” of woke thinking ... Learning from Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations ... John breaks his silence on transgender issues ... The political consequences of subjectivism ... Why Mark thinks transgender people are mentally disordered ... What does the T have to do with the LGB? ... Mark: Transgender people deserve respect ... Distinguishing between strategy and reality ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The End of the American Century (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66050 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66050#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:16:08 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=66050 <![CDATA[The gigification of academia ... Is education just another commodity? ... What do historians do? ... Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel ... The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university ... Using (and getting used by) new technology ... An alternate history of global economic development ... The end of the American century ... Daniel’s critique of US support for Ukraine ... ]]> <![CDATA[The gigification of academia ... Is education just another commodity? ... What do historians do? ... Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel ... The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university ... Using (and getting used by) new technology ... An alternate history of global economic development ... The end of the American century ... Daniel’s critique of US support for Ukraine ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 A Liberal Defense of Free Speech (Glenn Loury & Jonathan Rauch) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65976 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65976#respond Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:32:58 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65976 <![CDATA[What’s wrong with cancelation? ... A defense of Charles Murray ... Cancelation and the closet ... Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth ... Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor ... Is Trump an agent of disinformation? ... What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common ... Why Jonathan is hopeful about the constitution of knowledge ... ]]> <![CDATA[What’s wrong with cancelation? ... A defense of Charles Murray ... Cancelation and the closet ... Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth ... Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor ... Is Trump an agent of disinformation? ... What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common ... Why Jonathan is hopeful about the constitution of knowledge ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law (Glenn Loury, David Sacks, and Spencer Segal) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65914 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65914#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:29:37 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65914 <![CDATA[The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at Stanford Law School ... Why did people have a problem with Duncan? ... Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges ... The necessity of free inquiry and reasoned discourse ... What it’s like being a FedSoc conservative at Stanford Law ... The fallout from the Duncan protests ... The vulgarity of the insults hurled at Duncan ... The role of conservatives at Stanford ... ]]> <![CDATA[The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at Stanford Law School ... Why did people have a problem with Duncan? ... Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges ... The necessity of free inquiry and reasoned discourse ... What it’s like being a FedSoc conservative at Stanford Law ... The fallout from the Duncan protests ... The vulgarity of the insults hurled at Duncan ... The role of conservatives at Stanford ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 From Equity to Equality (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65889 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65889#respond Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:11:37 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65889 <![CDATA[John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher ... The rigors of the lecture circuit ... The difference between equity and equality ... How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else? ... The new black bourgeoisie ... Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative? ... John sets the record straight on his dancing skills ... ]]> <![CDATA[John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher ... The rigors of the lecture circuit ... The difference between equity and equality ... How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else? ... The new black bourgeoisie ... Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative? ... John sets the record straight on his dancing skills ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Diversifying the Scientific Imagination (Glenn Loury & Sylvester Gates) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65828 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65828#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:40:58 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65828 <![CDATA[What led Jim to the forefront of physics ... Jim explains supersymmetry ... Is there racism in the sciences? ... The role of culture and imagination in the sciences ... The scientific “big bang” in Europe ... How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores ... Jim: “Genius” is a verb ... Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation ... ]]> <![CDATA[What led Jim to the forefront of physics ... Jim explains supersymmetry ... Is there racism in the sciences? ... The role of culture and imagination in the sciences ... The scientific “big bang” in Europe ... How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores ... Jim: “Genius” is a verb ... Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Private Side of Public Life (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65802 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65802#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:50:22 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65802 <![CDATA[John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market ... Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043? ... Regret, doubt, and going against the tide ... How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles ... Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled? ... What’s going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy? ... ]]> <![CDATA[John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market ... Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043? ... Regret, doubt, and going against the tide ... How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles ... Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled? ... What’s going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Journey of Humanity (Glenn Loury & Oded Galor) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65764 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65764#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:57:22 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65764 <![CDATA[Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality ... How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history ... Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle ... Humanity's phase shift into modernity ... Inequality and the formation of institutions ... The deep links between geography and institutions ... Africa, Asia, and the trials of diversity ... ]]> <![CDATA[Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality ... How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history ... Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle ... Humanity's phase shift into modernity ... Inequality and the formation of institutions ... The deep links between geography and institutions ... Africa, Asia, and the trials of diversity ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Black Professor in Anti-Racist Hell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Vincent Lloyd) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65741 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65741#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:53:18 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65741 <![CDATA[Woke religion or woke cult? ... Does suffering confer authority on the sufferer? ... A world without “anti-Black domination” ... Is there an alternative to the criminal justice system? ... Domination and the purpose of the university ... How Vincent’s Telluride Association seminar blew up ... The narrowness of the social justice framework ... Glenn and John’s encounters with fans ... Should Black Studies exist? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Woke religion or woke cult? ... Does suffering confer authority on the sufferer? ... A world without “anti-Black domination” ... Is there an alternative to the criminal justice system? ... Domination and the purpose of the university ... How Vincent’s Telluride Association seminar blew up ... The narrowness of the social justice framework ... Glenn and John’s encounters with fans ... Should Black Studies exist? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Black, Christian, and Conservative (Glenn Loury & Delano Squires) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65694 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65694#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:39:07 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65694 <![CDATA[Why Delano is a conservative ... Delano’s critique of Raphael Warnock and the “Afristocracy” ... Delano: “The designer is the definer” ... Abortion and Black lives ... Are abortion rights necessary to protect women’s rights? ... Delano: Government is no substitute for fatherhood ... Can we reweave the social fabric? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Delano is a conservative ... Delano’s critique of Raphael Warnock and the “Afristocracy” ... Delano: “The designer is the definer” ... Abortion and Black lives ... Are abortion rights necessary to protect women’s rights? ... Delano: Government is no substitute for fatherhood ... Can we reweave the social fabric? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Killing of Tyre Nichols (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Moskos) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65670 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65670#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:45:47 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65670 <![CDATA[The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing ... The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing ... What set off the cops? ... Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded ... Should we get rid of qualified immunity? ... Policing and white supremacy ... Peter: We on the left have ceded law and order to the Trumpian right ... Tyre Nichols’s funeral ... John: I disagree with Sharpton, Crump, and Dyson, but they’re sincere ... ]]> <![CDATA[The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing ... The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing ... What set off the cops? ... Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded ... Should we get rid of qualified immunity? ... Policing and white supremacy ... Peter: We on the left have ceded law and order to the Trumpian right ... Tyre Nichols’s funeral ... John: I disagree with Sharpton, Crump, and Dyson, but they’re sincere ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Organizer Mindset (Glenn Loury & Ernesto Cortés, Jr.) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65635 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65635#respond Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:18:22 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65635 <![CDATA[Ernie’s work as an organizer ... Tension, polarization, and reconciliation ... The drama of organizing ... The definition of power ... Ernesto’s work getting running water and sewers to border communities ... Market activity vs. market ideology ... What’s wrong with meritocracy? ... Does identitarianism stand in the way of reconciliation? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Ernie’s work as an organizer ... Tension, polarization, and reconciliation ... The drama of organizing ... The definition of power ... Ernesto’s work getting running water and sewers to border communities ... Market activity vs. market ideology ... What’s wrong with meritocracy? ... Does identitarianism stand in the way of reconciliation? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Glenn and John Go Across the Pond (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65608 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65608#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:04:44 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65608 <![CDATA[Glenn and John go to Cambridge ... The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy ... John: “Physics is physics” ... The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies ... Is “getting past race” more trouble than it’s worth? ... Is Joe Biden patronizing black people? ... How a black musical changed the sound of Broadway ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn and John go to Cambridge ... The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy ... John: “Physics is physics” ... The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies ... Is “getting past race” more trouble than it’s worth? ... Is Joe Biden patronizing black people? ... How a black musical changed the sound of Broadway ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions (Glenn Loury & Steven Koonin) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65565 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65565#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:29:55 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65565 <![CDATA[Steven’s best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters ... Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief” ... The complexities of climate change models ... Should we worry about rising sea levels? ... Hurricanes, tornados, and other extreme weather events ... Is a zero-emissions goal worth the cost? ... How to fix climate science ... Are the Paris Accords viable? ... The coming climate backlash ... ]]> <![CDATA[Steven’s best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters ... Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief” ... The complexities of climate change models ... Should we worry about rising sea levels? ... Hurricanes, tornados, and other extreme weather events ... Is a zero-emissions goal worth the cost? ... How to fix climate science ... Are the Paris Accords viable? ... The coming climate backlash ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Best of Glenn and John 2022 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65529 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65529#respond Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:38:38 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65529 <![CDATA[A brief intro from Glenn ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The unified field theory of non-whiteness ... An honest conversation about crime ... Glenn’s birthday menu ... It’s time to choose a side ... Clarence Thomas, black icon ... Policing Joe Rogan ... By any means necessary? ... ]]> <![CDATA[A brief intro from Glenn ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The unified field theory of non-whiteness ... An honest conversation about crime ... Glenn’s birthday menu ... It’s time to choose a side ... Clarence Thomas, black icon ... Policing Joe Rogan ... By any means necessary? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Tyranny of Merit (Glenn Loury & Michael Sandel) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65490 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65490#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:20:09 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65490 <![CDATA[Some of Michael’s key works ... Meritocratic ideals and meritocratic fantasies ... The animus against elites ... Shouldn’t innovators reap their rewards? ... Does more profit create more value? ... Renewing the dignity of work ... The uses of punishment ... Our responsibility to national and global communities ... Michael: Diversity has “monopolized” discussion of affirmative action ... China’s reception of Michael’s critique of meritocracy ... ]]> <![CDATA[Some of Michael’s key works ... Meritocratic ideals and meritocratic fantasies ... The animus against elites ... Shouldn’t innovators reap their rewards? ... Does more profit create more value? ... Renewing the dignity of work ... The uses of punishment ... Our responsibility to national and global communities ... Michael: Diversity has “monopolized” discussion of affirmative action ... China’s reception of Michael’s critique of meritocracy ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Debating Deracialization (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Greg Thomas) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65478 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65478#respond Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:18:12 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65478 <![CDATA[The principles of jazz ... “Deracialization Now” ... Becoming Omni-American ... What’s wrong with racial identification? ... Black victimization and cultural memory ... The transformations of James Baldwin ... Convincing white people to deracialize ... Takeaways from 2022 ... 2023’s big Supreme Court decisions ... ]]> <![CDATA[The principles of jazz ... “Deracialization Now” ... Becoming Omni-American ... What’s wrong with racial identification? ... Black victimization and cultural memory ... The transformations of James Baldwin ... Convincing white people to deracialize ... Takeaways from 2022 ... 2023’s big Supreme Court decisions ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Speaking Out in an Age of Partisan Rancor (Glenn Loury & Hamish McKenzie) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65463 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65463#respond Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:11:02 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65463 <![CDATA[Why Glenn does The Glenn Show ... Glenn: “If I was going to vote for Trump, I wouldn’t tell you” ... “The cat is out of the bag” on election denial ... Modeling epistemic modesty ... Why is race such an important issue for Glenn? ... The Old Glenn and the New Glenn ... Confronting the past ... Putting “the funk” on the story of your life ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Glenn does The Glenn Show ... Glenn: “If I was going to vote for Trump, I wouldn’t tell you” ... “The cat is out of the bag” on election denial ... Modeling epistemic modesty ... Why is race such an important issue for Glenn? ... The Old Glenn and the New Glenn ... Confronting the past ... Putting “the funk” on the story of your life ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 How Should We Handle Antisemitism? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65420 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65420#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:59:02 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65420 <![CDATA[Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West’s antisemitism? ... The two words you never say together ... Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US? ... The mythological black past and the realities of the present ... How necessary is rootedness to the modern human experience? ... How we make race, how race makes us ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West’s antisemitism? ... The two words you never say together ... Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US? ... The mythological black past and the realities of the present ... How necessary is rootedness to the modern human experience? ... How we make race, how race makes us ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Capitalism vs. Socialism (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Richard Wolff) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65374 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65374#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:58:32 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65374 <![CDATA[Is capitalism a “winner take all” system? ... Why does the word “socialism” make so many Americans afraid? ... Has neoliberalism been beneficial for the US? ... Capitalism’s role in rising living standards around the world ... Are higher interest rates the only solution to inflation? ... Can the market eradicate employment discrimination? ... Why is the rent too damn high? ... Can there be a kinder, gentler form of capitalism? ... Closing statements ... ]]> <![CDATA[Is capitalism a “winner take all” system? ... Why does the word “socialism” make so many Americans afraid? ... Has neoliberalism been beneficial for the US? ... Capitalism’s role in rising living standards around the world ... Are higher interest rates the only solution to inflation? ... Can the market eradicate employment discrimination? ... Why is the rent too damn high? ... Can there be a kinder, gentler form of capitalism? ... Closing statements ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 A Peek Behind the Antiracist Curtain (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and James Beaman) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65327 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65327#respond Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:43:10 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65327 <![CDATA[How the pandemic affected diversity in the theater ... James gets drawn into an “antiracist” meltdown during rehearsal ... Juilliard students revolt ... A plea for mutual understanding in the theater ... A preview of things to come on The Glenn Show ... Glenn’s problem with “racial inequity” ... Getting through to “Donna” ... To speak your mind or to speak strategically? ... ]]> <![CDATA[How the pandemic affected diversity in the theater ... James gets drawn into an “antiracist” meltdown during rehearsal ... Juilliard students revolt ... A plea for mutual understanding in the theater ... A preview of things to come on The Glenn Show ... Glenn’s problem with “racial inequity” ... Getting through to “Donna” ... To speak your mind or to speak strategically? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Ethics of Black Identity (Glenn Loury, Reihan Salam, Kmele Foster, Shelby Steele & Robert Woodson) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65272 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65272#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2022 20:33:53 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65272 <![CDATA[What does “black identity” mean? ... Why Bob left the Civil Rights Movement ... Shelby: Our problem today is freedom, not racism ... Glenn: We can’t afford to give up on black collective goals ... Why Shelby wouldn’t sign a letter of support for Clarence Thomas ... Would freeing ourselves from race mean sacrificing collective action? ... The tactical efficacy of racial identification ... The struggle for human freedom ... Can we take pride in group achievements past? ... Kmele: We have a too-narrow sense of diversity ... Glenn: “The future is assimilation” ... Concluding statements ... ]]> <![CDATA[What does “black identity” mean? ... Why Bob left the Civil Rights Movement ... Shelby: Our problem today is freedom, not racism ... Glenn: We can’t afford to give up on black collective goals ... Why Shelby wouldn’t sign a letter of support for Clarence Thomas ... Would freeing ourselves from race mean sacrificing collective action? ... The tactical efficacy of racial identification ... The struggle for human freedom ... Can we take pride in group achievements past? ... Kmele: We have a too-narrow sense of diversity ... Glenn: “The future is assimilation” ... Concluding statements ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Wake of the "Red Wave" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65238 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65238#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:04:11 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65238 <![CDATA[Glenn’s culinary dilemma ... Why the Republican Party depresses John ... What’s the difference between Herschel Walker and John Fetterman? ... Glenn’s argument for voting Republican ... Woke theater’s “melodramatic agitprop” ... Kanye, Kyrie, and the Jews ... What’s “systemic,” “structural,” or “institutional” about racism? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn’s culinary dilemma ... Why the Republican Party depresses John ... What’s the difference between Herschel Walker and John Fetterman? ... Glenn’s argument for voting Republican ... Woke theater’s “melodramatic agitprop” ... Kanye, Kyrie, and the Jews ... What’s “systemic,” “structural,” or “institutional” about racism? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Heterodox Docs of Rob Montz (Glenn Loury & Rob Montz) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65208 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65208#respond Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:44:34 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65208 <![CDATA[The appeals of immigration restrictionism ... The 2013 Ray Kelly incident at Brown University ... Rob’s forthcoming documentary about James Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse ... The response to Rob’s Roland Fryer doc ... The response to Rob’s Roland Fryer doc ... Is there a “next Glenn Loury”? ... Glenn’s course on race and policing be required? ... Rob’s position on Trump ... DeSantis vs. Trump ... Rob’s love of ‘90s rap ... ]]> <![CDATA[The appeals of immigration restrictionism ... The 2013 Ray Kelly incident at Brown University ... Rob’s forthcoming documentary about James Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse ... The response to Rob’s Roland Fryer doc ... The response to Rob’s Roland Fryer doc ... Is there a “next Glenn Loury”? ... Glenn’s course on race and policing be required? ... Rob’s position on Trump ... DeSantis vs. Trump ... Rob’s love of ‘90s rap ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Golden Age of Black Heterodoxy (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65161 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65161#respond Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:51:09 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65161 <![CDATA[Walking through the valley of the shadow of death ... Earning credibility through self-discrediting disclosure ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The golden age of black heterodoxy ... The mainstreaming of Glenn and John ... Glenn’s debate with Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, and Kmele Foster ... Are we ready to “get past race”? ... The strange case of Jessica Krug ... Darrell Brooks’s courtroom performance ... ]]> <![CDATA[Walking through the valley of the shadow of death ... Earning credibility through self-discrediting disclosure ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The golden age of black heterodoxy ... The mainstreaming of Glenn and John ... Glenn’s debate with Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, and Kmele Foster ... Are we ready to “get past race”? ... The strange case of Jessica Krug ... Darrell Brooks’s courtroom performance ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Criminal (In)Justice (Glenn Loury & Rafael Mangual) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65115 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65115#respond Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:34:19 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65115 <![CDATA[How Rafael came to the Manhattan Institute ... Rafael’s new book, Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most ... Is prison the right response to violent crime? ... Why Rafael believes in three-strikes-type sentencing guidelines ... Incarceration may lower crime, but is it just? ... Rafael: Defunding the police is an indefensible idea ... Should we worry about racial disparities in the non-deadly use of force by police? ... Why Rafael’s father didn’t want him to become a cop ... ]]> <![CDATA[How Rafael came to the Manhattan Institute ... Rafael’s new book, Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most ... Is prison the right response to violent crime? ... Why Rafael believes in three-strikes-type sentencing guidelines ... Incarceration may lower crime, but is it just? ... Rafael: Defunding the police is an indefensible idea ... Should we worry about racial disparities in the non-deadly use of force by police? ... Why Rafael’s father didn’t want him to become a cop ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Racist Taunt That Wasn't (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65076 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65076#respond Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:57:59 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65076 <![CDATA[Is racist heckling at sporting events a real problem? ... John: “If you can’t be made fun of, you’re not part of the group” ... The LA City Council racism scandal ... Why is there no Latino Michael Brown? ... Exalting (and exaggerating) the victim role ... Glenn’s daughter’s upcoming appearance on The Glenn Show ... Elite discrimination against Asians ... ]]> <![CDATA[Is racist heckling at sporting events a real problem? ... John: “If you can’t be made fun of, you’re not part of the group” ... The LA City Council racism scandal ... Why is there no Latino Michael Brown? ... Exalting (and exaggerating) the victim role ... Glenn’s daughter’s upcoming appearance on The Glenn Show ... Elite discrimination against Asians ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Chicago's Drift Toward Dystopia (Glenn Loury & Matt Rosenberg) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65016 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/65016#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:01:38 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=65016 <![CDATA[Matt’s profile of the artist Rahmaan Statik ... Chicago’s “Great Unraveling” ... Is Chicago slouching toward dystopia? ... How will the near-end of cash bail affect crime in Chicago? ... The responsibilities of teachers, parents, and the police ... A snapshot of crime in Chicago ... Matt runs the numbers on Illinois’s out-of-wedlock births ... Lori Lightfoot’s prospects for reelection ... ]]> <![CDATA[Matt’s profile of the artist Rahmaan Statik ... Chicago’s “Great Unraveling” ... Is Chicago slouching toward dystopia? ... How will the near-end of cash bail affect crime in Chicago? ... The responsibilities of teachers, parents, and the police ... A snapshot of crime in Chicago ... Matt runs the numbers on Illinois’s out-of-wedlock births ... Lori Lightfoot’s prospects for reelection ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 DEI in the Orchestral World (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Don Baton ) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64970 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64970#respond Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:36:16 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64970 <![CDATA[Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity? ... The decline of blind auditions ... Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians? ... Why Don is protecting his real identity ... Glenn delivers a soliloquy on humanity ... John: Eliminating blind auditions is “bat shit crazy” ... Should John’s daughters benefit from affirmative action? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity? ... The decline of blind auditions ... Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians? ... Why Don is protecting his real identity ... Glenn delivers a soliloquy on humanity ... John: Eliminating blind auditions is “bat shit crazy” ... Should John’s daughters benefit from affirmative action? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Fight for Due Process under Title IX (Glenn Loury & Lara Bazelon) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64912 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64912#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:48:10 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64912 <![CDATA[Lara’s critique of Title IX adjudications ... Why Lara defended a college student accused of rape ... Lara’s cross-examination of the accuser ... The trouble with “Believe Women” ... What the Trump Administration got right about Title IX ... Why Lara supports Amy Wax’s freedom of speech ... Does Glenn still feel marginalized? ... Finding common ground amidst political tribalism ... Lara’s work on racial disparities in sexual assault cases ... ]]> <![CDATA[Lara’s critique of Title IX adjudications ... Why Lara defended a college student accused of rape ... Lara’s cross-examination of the accuser ... The trouble with “Believe Women” ... What the Trump Administration got right about Title IX ... Why Lara supports Amy Wax’s freedom of speech ... Does Glenn still feel marginalized? ... Finding common ground amidst political tribalism ... Lara’s work on racial disparities in sexual assault cases ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 F.R.E.E. Agency (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Rowe) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64853 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64853#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:14:51 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64853 <![CDATA[How Rodney King led to Ian’s podcast, Invisible Men ... Blaming the system and blaming the victim ... Ian: I run schools to show my students they can do hard things ... What’s so special about marriage? ... Glenn: Right living is its own reward ... The problem of success and “blackness” ... Ian’s experience running Vertex ... How Ian funds his schools ... The bureaucratic opposition to charter schools ... What comes after the Old Parkland Conference? ... ]]> <![CDATA[How Rodney King led to Ian’s podcast, Invisible Men ... Blaming the system and blaming the victim ... Ian: I run schools to show my students they can do hard things ... What’s so special about marriage? ... Glenn: Right living is its own reward ... The problem of success and “blackness” ... Ian’s experience running Vertex ... How Ian funds his schools ... The bureaucratic opposition to charter schools ... What comes after the Old Parkland Conference? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 What Explains Persistent Racial Inequality? (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64818 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64818#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:10:21 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64818 <![CDATA[Introducing Glenn Loury ... What is “social capital”? ... Racial inequality and self-segregation ... Glenn: “The jig is up” on affirmative action ... Balancing preferences and colorblindness ... Rethinking the welfare state ... Why Glenn’s forthcoming memoir is titled "The Enemy Within" ... ]]> <![CDATA[Introducing Glenn Loury ... What is “social capital”? ... Racial inequality and self-segregation ... Glenn: “The jig is up” on affirmative action ... Balancing preferences and colorblindness ... Rethinking the welfare state ... Why Glenn’s forthcoming memoir is titled "The Enemy Within" ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64789 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64789#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:43:55 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64789 <![CDATA[What’s on the menu for Glenn’s birthday party ... John’s Twitter spat with Ibram X. Kendi ... What do we lose by changing testing standards? ... Glenn: If groups matter, then culture matters ... How to prove a racist wrong ... The ballad of Glenn and Woody ... Mitchell S. Jackson’s Esquire essay about Clarence Thomas ... ]]> <![CDATA[What’s on the menu for Glenn’s birthday party ... John’s Twitter spat with Ibram X. Kendi ... What do we lose by changing testing standards? ... Glenn: If groups matter, then culture matters ... How to prove a racist wrong ... The ballad of Glenn and Woody ... Mitchell S. Jackson’s Esquire essay about Clarence Thomas ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Cultural Dimensions of American Conflict (Glenn Loury & Steve McIntosh) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64754 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64754#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:08:48 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64754 <![CDATA[A scheduling announcement from Glenn ... Steve's latest book, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow into a Better Version of Itself ... From modernity to progressive postmodernism ... Are we in the midst of cultural evolution or culture war? ... The work of the Institute for Cultural Evolution ... "Modernist consciousness" in East Asia ... Steve: "Force is necessary but not sufficient" to combat violent Islamic fundamentalism ... The positive side of progressive postmodernism ... Can cultural evolution overcome political polarization in the US? ... A cultural evolutionary perspective on the development narrative ... ]]> <![CDATA[A scheduling announcement from Glenn ... Steve's latest book, Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow into a Better Version of Itself ... From modernity to progressive postmodernism ... Are we in the midst of cultural evolution or culture war? ... The work of the Institute for Cultural Evolution ... "Modernist consciousness" in East Asia ... Steve: "Force is necessary but not sufficient" to combat violent Islamic fundamentalism ... The positive side of progressive postmodernism ... Can cultural evolution overcome political polarization in the US? ... A cultural evolutionary perspective on the development narrative ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Freedom of Inquiry on the Line (Glenn Loury & Amy Wax) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64705 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64705#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:43:45 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64705 <![CDATA[Amy’s recent conflict with the Penn Law School administration ... Amy responds to her dean’s charges of racism, sexism, and xenophobia ... Should we take students’ feelings into account when discussing race and admissions? ... Glenn: If Amy is fired, it will be an outrage beyond belief ... Why Amy invited Jared Taylor to speak with her students ... Amy’s defense of race realism’s legitimacy ... Glenn and Amy’s first encounter ... Amy: Sometimes reality is upsetting and offensive ... How to help Amy ... ]]> <![CDATA[Amy’s recent conflict with the Penn Law School administration ... Amy responds to her dean’s charges of racism, sexism, and xenophobia ... Should we take students’ feelings into account when discussing race and admissions? ... Glenn: If Amy is fired, it will be an outrage beyond belief ... Why Amy invited Jared Taylor to speak with her students ... Amy’s defense of race realism’s legitimacy ... Glenn and Amy’s first encounter ... Amy: Sometimes reality is upsetting and offensive ... How to help Amy ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Rewriting the Script on Race (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64669 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64669#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:50:29 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64669 <![CDATA[A report on the Loury family reunion ... Identity politics onstage and backstage ... Insecurity-driven campus grievance ... Glenn: When will non-right-wing leaders say “Enough!” to racial grievance? ... John: People with ugly opinions can also produce great art … ... … but are there significant figures whose views disqualify them from public honor? ... Considering fundamentalist Islam and human nature after the Salman Rushdie assault ... ]]> <![CDATA[A report on the Loury family reunion ... Identity politics onstage and backstage ... Insecurity-driven campus grievance ... Glenn: When will non-right-wing leaders say “Enough!” to racial grievance? ... John: People with ugly opinions can also produce great art … ... … but are there significant figures whose views disqualify them from public honor? ... Considering fundamentalist Islam and human nature after the Salman Rushdie assault ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Meet the Manhattan Institute (Glenn Loury & Reihan Salam) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64641 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64641#respond Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:25:26 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64641 <![CDATA[Glenn’s impact on Reihan ... How Reihan became president of the Manhattan Institute ... What is the Manhattan Institute’s relationship to Eric Adams’s administration? ... The value of dissenters ... Reihan: We’ve underinvested in our criminal justice system ... What constitutes a quality high school education? ... Michael Bloomberg’s education initiatives ... Reihan’s concerns about racial reification ... The uses and abuses of racial identity ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn’s impact on Reihan ... How Reihan became president of the Manhattan Institute ... What is the Manhattan Institute’s relationship to Eric Adams’s administration? ... The value of dissenters ... Reihan: We’ve underinvested in our criminal justice system ... What constitutes a quality high school education? ... Michael Bloomberg’s education initiatives ... Reihan’s concerns about racial reification ... The uses and abuses of racial identity ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Capitalism and Democracy in Post-Industrial America (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Richard Wolff) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64592 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64592#respond Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:20:37 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64592 <![CDATA[A special announcement from Glenn ... Richard’s journey from quiet Marxist to public intellectual ... Why Youngstown, Ohio was left behind ... Richard: Capitalist ownership is inherently anti-democratic ... Richard’s critique of Hayekian libertarianism ... Pecuniary externalities vs. objective externalities ... Socialism’s historical track record ... Employees as stakeholders ... The rise of the right in the wake of the New Deal and WWII ... The Glenn Show’s new partnership with the Manhattan Institute ... ]]> <![CDATA[A special announcement from Glenn ... Richard’s journey from quiet Marxist to public intellectual ... Why Youngstown, Ohio was left behind ... Richard: Capitalist ownership is inherently anti-democratic ... Richard’s critique of Hayekian libertarianism ... Pecuniary externalities vs. objective externalities ... Socialism’s historical track record ... Employees as stakeholders ... The rise of the right in the wake of the New Deal and WWII ... The Glenn Show’s new partnership with the Manhattan Institute ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Fear of a Black Universe (Glenn Loury & Stephon Alexander) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64571 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64571#respond Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:03:49 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64571 <![CDATA[Glenn and Steph’s jam session ... Steph’s adventures in the multiverse ... The parallels between black art and physics ... The centrality of self-reference in Steph’s work ... Is there a racial dimension to how excellence reveals itself in students? ... How Steph learned to level up ... Steph’s new book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics ... Steph’s admiration for prior generations of Jewish physicists ... How Glenn and Steph navigate stigma ... What is the Higgs boson? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn and Steph’s jam session ... Steph’s adventures in the multiverse ... The parallels between black art and physics ... The centrality of self-reference in Steph’s work ... Is there a racial dimension to how excellence reveals itself in students? ... How Steph learned to level up ... Steph’s new book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics ... Steph’s admiration for prior generations of Jewish physicists ... How Glenn and Steph navigate stigma ... What is the Higgs boson? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Race and Conservatism: Walker, Thomas, and Wax (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64537 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64537#respond Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:27:07 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64537 <![CDATA[John: Republicans’ elevation of Herschel Walker is an insult ... If Walker is so inept, why does he have so much support? ... Where’s the outrage over racist attacks on Clarence Thomas? ... Thomas’s historical significance ... The Clarence Thomas (and Al Sharpton) we don’t see ... Are Amy Wax’s views beyond the pale? ... John: “Amy should know better” ... Amy Wax’s return to The Glenn Show ... ]]> <![CDATA[John: Republicans’ elevation of Herschel Walker is an insult ... If Walker is so inept, why does he have so much support? ... Where’s the outrage over racist attacks on Clarence Thomas? ... Thomas’s historical significance ... The Clarence Thomas (and Al Sharpton) we don’t see ... Are Amy Wax’s views beyond the pale? ... John: “Amy should know better” ... Amy Wax’s return to The Glenn Show ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Our Gun Problem (Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64488 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64488#respond Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:16:45 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64488 <![CDATA[The cryptocurrency bezzle ... Rajiv’s critique of the contact hypothesis ... Will popular proposed gun control measures meaningfully reduce homicides? ... Can we talk about culture without becoming essentialists? ... Rajiv: I find self-censorship and anti-CRT mobs equally disturbing ... Debating the 1619 Project ... Rajiv’s idea to reduce illegal firearm sales: gun insurance ... Why do we see such racial disparities in gun violence? Rajiv has some theories ... What did we learn from the second Justice Department investigation in Ferguson? ... ]]> <![CDATA[The cryptocurrency bezzle ... Rajiv’s critique of the contact hypothesis ... Will popular proposed gun control measures meaningfully reduce homicides? ... Can we talk about culture without becoming essentialists? ... Rajiv: I find self-censorship and anti-CRT mobs equally disturbing ... Debating the 1619 Project ... Rajiv’s idea to reduce illegal firearm sales: gun insurance ... Why do we see such racial disparities in gun violence? Rajiv has some theories ... What did we learn from the second Justice Department investigation in Ferguson? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Glenn and John Live at the Comedy Cellar (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Sherrod Small, Jon Laster & Nimesh Patel) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64445 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64445#respond Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:14:24 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64445 <![CDATA[Why do race and gender trump socioeconomics in affirmative action considerations? ... Are Glenn and John making a difference in the race debate? ... The argument for charter schools ... Glenn: Nobody really believes that racism is the cause of racial disparities in crime ... The difficulty of having an honest conversation about race and crime ... Seizing the possibilities of our freedom ... John: The race debate is about the cops ... The Jon Laster Challenge ... Sherrod talks to the crowd ... Why do cops become cops? ... Jon: Money is the biggest problem in black communities ... Can poverty account for violence in black communities? ... Q&A: Do we need more black police? ... Q&A: Have Glenn and John gotten credit for highlighting The Trayvon Hoax? ... Q&A: John clarifies his position on the Georgia voting law ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why do race and gender trump socioeconomics in affirmative action considerations? ... Are Glenn and John making a difference in the race debate? ... The argument for charter schools ... Glenn: Nobody really believes that racism is the cause of racial disparities in crime ... The difficulty of having an honest conversation about race and crime ... Seizing the possibilities of our freedom ... John: The race debate is about the cops ... The Jon Laster Challenge ... Sherrod talks to the crowd ... Why do cops become cops? ... Jon: Money is the biggest problem in black communities ... Can poverty account for violence in black communities? ... Q&A: Do we need more black police? ... Q&A: Have Glenn and John gotten credit for highlighting The Trayvon Hoax? ... Q&A: John clarifies his position on the Georgia voting law ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Who Is Responsible for the Russia-Ukraine War? (Glenn Loury & Nikita Petrov) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64407 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64407#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:47:52 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64407 <![CDATA[Nikita asks: Who are “my people”? ... How much responsibility do we bear for the actions of our governments? ... The problem of racial affiliation ... The use and abuse of group identity ... Is Glenn “authentically black”? ... The incomplete project of emancipation ... Why was Russia’s period of true democracy so brief? ... Democracy and “the Russian soul” ... Can we compare antiwar Americans and antiwar Russians? ... Glenn: Why would the US risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine? ... The US’s involvement in drafting Russia’s constitution ... ]]> <![CDATA[Nikita asks: Who are “my people”? ... How much responsibility do we bear for the actions of our governments? ... The problem of racial affiliation ... The use and abuse of group identity ... Is Glenn “authentically black”? ... The incomplete project of emancipation ... Why was Russia’s period of true democracy so brief? ... Democracy and “the Russian soul” ... Can we compare antiwar Americans and antiwar Russians? ... Glenn: Why would the US risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine? ... The US’s involvement in drafting Russia’s constitution ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Rejecting the Tokenism of "Diversity" (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64382 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64382#respond Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:51:24 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64382 <![CDATA[John reports on his rustic Catskills bungalow ... Parents protest Princeton public schools “dumbing down” their math curriculum ... How much educational transparency is owed to parents? ... How many DEI initiatives and administrators do we actually need? ... John: I don’t think we can fix what’s broken in DEI ... Glenn’s theory of social capital may explain (but does not excuse) some disparities ... Cultures of achievement vs. disincentive effects of affirmative action ... What do we know about what kids know about the world? ... Glenn offers some reason for hope from John Tomasi ... ]]> <![CDATA[John reports on his rustic Catskills bungalow ... Parents protest Princeton public schools “dumbing down” their math curriculum ... How much educational transparency is owed to parents? ... How many DEI initiatives and administrators do we actually need? ... John: I don’t think we can fix what’s broken in DEI ... Glenn’s theory of social capital may explain (but does not excuse) some disparities ... Cultures of achievement vs. disincentive effects of affirmative action ... What do we know about what kids know about the world? ... Glenn offers some reason for hope from John Tomasi ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Structural Stupidities of the Left and Right (Glenn Loury & Jonathan Haidt) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64357 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64357#respond Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:32:42 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64357 <![CDATA[Glenn asks: Is Jon’s heterodoxy insufficiently pugilistic? ... Jon’s theory of social media-driven “structural stupidity” ... Do the Republican Party’s structural flaws negate its policies? ... The rise of social media and the disappearance of free play for kids ... Race, trans issues, and the future of the country ... Why are economists uniquely heterodox thinkers in the academy? ... What fills the “God-shaped hole” in the hearts of putatively secular Americans? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn asks: Is Jon’s heterodoxy insufficiently pugilistic? ... Jon’s theory of social media-driven “structural stupidity” ... Do the Republican Party’s structural flaws negate its policies? ... The rise of social media and the disappearance of free play for kids ... Race, trans issues, and the future of the country ... Why are economists uniquely heterodox thinkers in the academy? ... What fills the “God-shaped hole” in the hearts of putatively secular Americans? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Race and Inequality across the Atlantic (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64314 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64314#respond Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:06:14 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64314 <![CDATA[Race and economics in the UK ... How long will the concerns of native-born Black Americans drive the race conversation? ... The shaky “people of color” coalition ... Trying to account for racial disparities in the commission of violent crime ... Reclaiming moral agency from white people ... The Old Parkland conference ... John’s forthcoming lectures on the alphabet ... Glenn’s critique of John’s school shooting column ... ]]> <![CDATA[Race and economics in the UK ... How long will the concerns of native-born Black Americans drive the race conversation? ... The shaky “people of color” coalition ... Trying to account for racial disparities in the commission of violent crime ... Reclaiming moral agency from white people ... The Old Parkland conference ... John’s forthcoming lectures on the alphabet ... Glenn’s critique of John’s school shooting column ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Voices of Black Mothers United & Glenn's Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech (Voices of Black Mothers United & Glenn's Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech (Glenn Loury, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., and Sylvia Bennett-Stone)) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64269 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64269#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:23:43 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64269 <![CDATA[The work of the Woodson Center ... Sylvia’s recent five-city tour to support victims of violence ... How tragedy moved Sylvia to start Voices of Black Mothers United ... Sylvia: We must work with the police in our communities ... What role does race play in VBMU’s work? And where are the fathers? ... The importance of forgiveness in the healing process ... How VBMU is reaching out beyond Black communities ... Sylvia: The pain of mothers who lose children to police violence is no different than mine ... Glenn: Why do we hear so little about Christian faith’s role in healing? ... Glenn's Bradley Prize acceptance speech, May 17, 2022 ... ]]> <![CDATA[The work of the Woodson Center ... Sylvia’s recent five-city tour to support victims of violence ... How tragedy moved Sylvia to start Voices of Black Mothers United ... Sylvia: We must work with the police in our communities ... What role does race play in VBMU’s work? And where are the fathers? ... The importance of forgiveness in the healing process ... How VBMU is reaching out beyond Black communities ... Sylvia: The pain of mothers who lose children to police violence is no different than mine ... Glenn: Why do we hear so little about Christian faith’s role in healing? ... Glenn's Bradley Prize acceptance speech, May 17, 2022 ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Immigration Debate after Buffalo (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64230 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64230#respond Fri, 27 May 2022 19:26:30 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64230 <![CDATA[John: We need a word besides “racism” to distinguish racial inequities from what happened in Buffalo ... Glenn: I don’t agree with everything Tucker Carlson says, but he’s not a racist ... Demographic change is happening in the US, but how should we understand it? ... What does Tucker think he’s doing and what is he actually doing? ... Glenn: We should be able to freely debate immigration policy without evoking racial tropes ... Glenn accepts the Bradley Prize at the organization’s gala ... How a white woman’s condescension stopped John from reading Walter Mosley ... Can we disentangle incidents like the Buffalo shooting from ideology? ... A correction from Glenn ... ]]> <![CDATA[John: We need a word besides “racism” to distinguish racial inequities from what happened in Buffalo ... Glenn: I don’t agree with everything Tucker Carlson says, but he’s not a racist ... Demographic change is happening in the US, but how should we understand it? ... What does Tucker think he’s doing and what is he actually doing? ... Glenn: We should be able to freely debate immigration policy without evoking racial tropes ... Glenn accepts the Bradley Prize at the organization’s gala ... How a white woman’s condescension stopped John from reading Walter Mosley ... Can we disentangle incidents like the Buffalo shooting from ideology? ... A correction from Glenn ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 What Is Social Science (Glenn Loury & Daniel Kaufman) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64188 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64188#respond Fri, 20 May 2022 18:16:19 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64188 <![CDATA[How scientific are the social sciences? ... Glenn defends the reliability of economic predictions ... The strengths and weaknesses of “natural experiments” ... How much does culture affect economic behavior? ... New insights from behavioral economics ... Dan: We trust the social sciences too much ... ]]> <![CDATA[How scientific are the social sciences? ... Glenn defends the reliability of economic predictions ... The strengths and weaknesses of “natural experiments” ... How much does culture affect economic behavior? ... New insights from behavioral economics ... Dan: We trust the social sciences too much ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Cancellation at St. Olaf College (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Edmund Santurri) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64153 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64153#respond Fri, 13 May 2022 16:22:09 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64153 <![CDATA[Why Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community ... The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events ... John: Administrators at St. Olaf should be ashamed of themselvesc ... Are right-wing campaigns against openly trans and nonbinary elementary school teachers the equivalent of left-wing cancel culture? ... What are the social determinants of gender identity in young people? ... Glenn’s awesome house ... A festschrift for Glenn ... Can we separate jurisprudence from the lived consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade? ... Do the ends now justify the means in American politics? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Why Ed is being removed from the directorship of the Institute for Freedom & Community ... The pressure campaigns waged against past Institute events ... John: Administrators at St. Olaf should be ashamed of themselvesc ... Are right-wing campaigns against openly trans and nonbinary elementary school teachers the equivalent of left-wing cancel culture? ... What are the social determinants of gender identity in young people? ... Glenn’s awesome house ... A festschrift for Glenn ... Can we separate jurisprudence from the lived consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade? ... Do the ends now justify the means in American politics? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Debating Progressive Policy (Glenn Loury & Briahna Joy Gray) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64109 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64109#respond Fri, 06 May 2022 16:44:47 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64109 <![CDATA[Acknowledging the black middle class ... How the Democratic Party works against progressives ... Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters ... Should we increase taxes on the very rich in order to fund the social safety net? ... Briahna makes the case for Medicare for All ... Should we cancel student debt? ... The left-right alliance over intervention in Ukraine ... ]]> <![CDATA[Acknowledging the black middle class ... How the Democratic Party works against progressives ... Briahna: The interests of political parties no longer reflect the interests of voters ... Should we increase taxes on the very rich in order to fund the social safety net? ... Briahna makes the case for Medicare for All ... Should we cancel student debt? ... The left-right alliance over intervention in Ukraine ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 A Future for Black Tradition (Glenn Loury & Greg Thomas) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64074 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64074#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:10:22 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64074 <![CDATA[Greg’s work with the Jazz Leadership Project ... How does a “black” art form operate within a corporate environment? ... What’s left of the legacy of Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Stanley Crouc ... Black culture after the postmodern turn ... Greg’s work with the Institute for Cultural Evolution ... Greg’s critique of Black Lives Matter ... Rooted cosmopolitanism and the “Faustian bargain” of whiteness ... Greg’s very accomplished daughter ... ]]> <![CDATA[Greg’s work with the Jazz Leadership Project ... How does a “black” art form operate within a corporate environment? ... What’s left of the legacy of Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and Stanley Crouc ... Black culture after the postmodern turn ... Greg’s work with the Institute for Cultural Evolution ... Greg’s critique of Black Lives Matter ... Rooted cosmopolitanism and the “Faustian bargain” of whiteness ... Greg’s very accomplished daughter ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 The Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual (Glenn Loury & Stephanie Lepp) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64028 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/64028#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:32:15 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=64028 <![CDATA[What is Glenn’s goal as a public intellectual? ... Glenn has his critique of affirmative action … ... … but is articulating the critique enough? ... Glenn: My raison d’être is to give voice to my contempt for the failures of my people ... Stephanie: At a certain point, you’re not describing reality, you’re influencing it ... The case for integralism ... “Evolution is beautiful, but it’s not pretty” ... Glenn’s critique of Stephanie’s “promiscuous pragmatic pluralism” ... A preliminary look into the married life of the Lourys ... ]]> <![CDATA[What is Glenn’s goal as a public intellectual? ... Glenn has his critique of affirmative action … ... … but is articulating the critique enough? ... Glenn: My raison d’être is to give voice to my contempt for the failures of my people ... Stephanie: At a certain point, you’re not describing reality, you’re influencing it ... The case for integralism ... “Evolution is beautiful, but it’s not pretty” ... Glenn’s critique of Stephanie’s “promiscuous pragmatic pluralism” ... A preliminary look into the married life of the Lourys ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Trayvon Martin, 10 Years Later (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63985 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63985#respond Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:43:14 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63985 <![CDATA[The NYT commemorates the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death ... What really happened between Martin and George Zimmerman? ... How John’s relationship with The Root frayed ... Learning from the O.J. Simpson case ... Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on the big and small screen ... Where are the consequences for those who get it wrong? ... Remembering Scott Joplin ... ]]> <![CDATA[The NYT commemorates the tenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death ... What really happened between Martin and George Zimmerman? ... How John’s relationship with The Root frayed ... Learning from the O.J. Simpson case ... Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on the big and small screen ... Where are the consequences for those who get it wrong? ... Remembering Scott Joplin ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 TGS Live at the Comedy Cellar (Glenn Loury et al) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63946 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63946#respond Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:34:37 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63946 <![CDATA[Some unspeakable truths ... Are comics now afraid to speak their minds onstage? ... The difference between telling the truth and getting a laugh ... Can jokes actually do harm? ... Nikki Jax on comedy and trans issues ... Who actually “cancels” comics, audiences or corporations? ... Sam Jay on artistic freedom and mob mentality ... Q&A: I’m worried people won’t understand that my one-woman show is satire. What should I do? ... Q&A: Does comedy have real power or is it ‘just jokes’? ... Q&A: Do comics sometimes inadvertently reinforce wrongheaded points of view? ... Q&A: Why are Ivy Leaguers so unfunny? ... Q&A: Are college campuses inhospitable environments for comedy? ... Q&A: What got Roland suspended at Harvard? ... Q&A: Does the general public need social media training? ... Q&A: Is there a way to stop corporations from folding to social media pressure campaigns? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Some unspeakable truths ... Are comics now afraid to speak their minds onstage? ... The difference between telling the truth and getting a laugh ... Can jokes actually do harm? ... Nikki Jax on comedy and trans issues ... Who actually “cancels” comics, audiences or corporations? ... Sam Jay on artistic freedom and mob mentality ... Q&A: I’m worried people won’t understand that my one-woman show is satire. What should I do? ... Q&A: Does comedy have real power or is it ‘just jokes’? ... Q&A: Do comics sometimes inadvertently reinforce wrongheaded points of view? ... Q&A: Why are Ivy Leaguers so unfunny? ... Q&A: Are college campuses inhospitable environments for comedy? ... Q&A: What got Roland suspended at Harvard? ... Q&A: Does the general public need social media training? ... Q&A: Is there a way to stop corporations from folding to social media pressure campaigns? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Matters of Race, Matters of Mind (Glenn Loury & Sam Harris) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63903 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63903#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:59:59 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63903 <![CDATA[The principle that race shouldn’t matter and the fact that it does ... The high stakes of affirmative action ... In defense of Charles Murray ... Are there facts we’re better off not knowing? ... When does affirmative action make sense and when is it counterproductive? ... Is belief in God irrational? ... Suffering and the illusion of self ... Finding meaning in secular community ... ]]> <![CDATA[The principle that race shouldn’t matter and the fact that it does ... The high stakes of affirmative action ... In defense of Charles Murray ... Are there facts we’re better off not knowing? ... When does affirmative action make sense and when is it counterproductive? ... Is belief in God irrational? ... Suffering and the illusion of self ... Finding meaning in secular community ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 What Is Putin Thinking? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Matt Taibbi) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63871 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63871#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:51:53 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63871 <![CDATA[Matt’s brief career as a professional basketball player in Mongolia ... What drove Putin to invade Ukraine? ... Are there limits to Putin’s power in Russia? ... Putting ourselves in Russia’s geopolitical shoes ... The appeal of Russian nationalism ... Did we learn anything from Iraq and Afghanistan? ... Did Russiagate obscure Americans’ ability to see Russia’s actions clearly? ... The value of public apologies ... Matt: Journalists are now in the narrative business ... The foreign policy language barrier ... Matt’s recommends some modern Russian writers ... Matt answers the most pressing question of our time: Celtics or Nets? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Matt’s brief career as a professional basketball player in Mongolia ... What drove Putin to invade Ukraine? ... Are there limits to Putin’s power in Russia? ... Putting ourselves in Russia’s geopolitical shoes ... The appeal of Russian nationalism ... Did we learn anything from Iraq and Afghanistan? ... Did Russiagate obscure Americans’ ability to see Russia’s actions clearly? ... The value of public apologies ... Matt: Journalists are now in the narrative business ... The foreign policy language barrier ... Matt’s recommends some modern Russian writers ... Matt answers the most pressing question of our time: Celtics or Nets? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Ukraine and American Decline (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63832 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63832#respond Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:10:34 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63832 <![CDATA[Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony ... Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US? ... How the war in Ukraine could increase nuclear proliferation ... Daniel: It’s absurd that people got so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment ... Does the US have “mass politics” anymore? If not, is that a bad thing? ... When does it pay to privatize? ... What’s so bad about utopianism? ... Is true meritocracy possible within a highly unequal society? ... The uses (and possible abuses) of game theory ... ]]> <![CDATA[Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony ... Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US? ... How the war in Ukraine could increase nuclear proliferation ... Daniel: It’s absurd that people got so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment ... Does the US have “mass politics” anymore? If not, is that a bad thing? ... When does it pay to privatize? ... What’s so bad about utopianism? ... Is true meritocracy possible within a highly unequal society? ... The uses (and possible abuses) of game theory ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00 Capital Offenses (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter) https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63790 https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/63790#respond Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:41:32 +0000 http://bloggingheads.tv/?p=63790 <![CDATA[Glenn contemplates exiting academia ... Why should Jeffrey Lieberman lose his jobs over a tacky tweet? ... The historical significance of the word “Negro” ... The revolt against “Latinx” ... Why Glenn doesn’t capitalize “black” ... Why does “blackness” take precedence? ... Glenn: Tenure without mandatory retirement can be a problem ... Will the US send troops to Ukraine? ... ]]> <![CDATA[Glenn contemplates exiting academia ... Why should Jeffrey Lieberman lose his jobs over a tacky tweet? ... The historical significance of the word “Negro” ... The revolt against “Latinx” ... Why Glenn doesn’t capitalize “black” ... Why does “blackness” take precedence? ... Glenn: Tenure without mandatory retirement can be a problem ... Will the US send troops to Ukraine? ... ]]> bloggingheads.tv 01:00:00

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