Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus

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0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses

4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine

9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test

12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem

18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”

21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir

25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling

27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now

30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets

42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree

46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists

49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates

51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings

56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success

Recorded January 26, 2024

Links and Readings

Noam Dworman’s TGS appearance

Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table

Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table

Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis

Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table

Benny Morris on Live from the Table

Tara Henley’s Lean Out

Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena

Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom

Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report

University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression

Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin

Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict

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

Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”

Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”