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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links1:04 Rajiv’s role in getting Glenn’s forthcoming book published 7:39 Self-censorship and racial passing 9:29 Rajiv’s work on parental investment and educational attainment 17:01 Rajiv: Prediction markets outperformed forecasting models in 2024 23:36 Are Trump’s tariff threats having their intended effects on foreign markets? 31:53 Why Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 35:07 Rajiv recommends some public-facing economists 39:26 Secular backsliding in India 43:51 Trump’s revocation of LBJ’s 1965 anti-discrimination executive orderRecorded January 25, 2025Links and ReadingsRajiv’s Substack, Imperfect InformationRajiv post Substack post, “Self-Censorship, Passing, and Natural Cover”James Weldon Johnson’s novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored ManGlenn and Rajiv’s 2014 conversation about self-censorshipGlenn and Young-Chul Kim’s article, “To Be, or Not to Be: Stereotypes, Identity Choice and Group Inequality”Glenn and Rajiv’s previous conversationRajiv and Dyotona Dasgupta’s working paper, “Educational Standards and Parental Investment”Rajiv’s post, “The Tariff Threat”Paul Krugman’s post, “The Dollar and the Trade Deficit”John Cochrane’s review of Late AdmissionsTyler Cowen’s Marginal RevolutionGyan Mukherjee’s 1943 film, KismetRajiv and Brendan O’Flaherty’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comIn this post-show bonus episode, Glenn, Mark, and Nikita discuss Trump's tariff threats, madman theory, competing racial myths, and colorblindness vs. indifference. Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links1:08 Intros 4:24 Matthew: The IDF recklessly disregarded civilian life in its October 2023 bombing campaign 9:01 Eli: Israel made efforts to warn civilians ahead of bombings 15:31 Ground News ad 17:35 Are Gazan civilian deaths part of Hamas’s strategy or merely an effect of its strategy? 23:39 Counting casualties in the fog of war 30:04 If Hamas is still partially intact, can a ceasefire hold? 33:28 ACTA ad 38:53 Why Matthew thinks Israel was intentionally killing civilians early in the war 48:41 Is Matthew holding Israel to a different standard than he would hold the US? 52:39 Alternative strategies for prosecuting the war 56:16 Do civilian warnings negate the question of murderous intent? 1:01:46 Eli: I don’t think Jewish critics of the war are speaking for the larger diaspora 1:10:05 Is further normalization between Israel and the rest of Middle East coming despite the war? 1:15:10 Matthew: Israel clandestinely continued its initial starvation strategy in Gaza for monthsRecorded January 17, 2025Links and ReadingsTrailer for Eli’s forthcoming Free Press podcast, Breaking HistoryMatthew’s YouTube show, History SpeaksAirwarsAirwars’ Gaza Patterns of Harm reportYuval Abraham’s +972 piece, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza”Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies’s Guardian piece, “‘The Machine Did It Coldly’: Israel Used AI to Identify 37,000 Hamas Targets”Patrick Kingsley et al’s NYT piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on XGlenn’s conversation with Omer BartovMotty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein’s Haaretz piece, “It’s Impossible Not to Know What’s Going on in Gaza” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this post-show bonus episode, I talk with Mark, Nikita, and LaJuan about Trump's inauguration, this week's debate between Eli Lake and Matthew Cockerill, and whether we need Medicare for All.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:55 Peter’s new book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop 5:27 Why policing went off the rails over the last decade 11:03 Peter: I’m done with police abolitionists 19:22 Why don’t we hear about unarmed black men getting shot anymore? 22:00 Remembering the lessons of ‘90s New York 28:07 Dealing with the racial disparity problem 35:46 Is there a suicide problem among cops? 39:31 The Ferguson Effect 43:12 The utility of pretextual stops 48:29 The pride felt by the 1990s NYPD 50:30 What cops think of Darren Wilson and Derek ChauvinRecorded January 10, 2025Links and ReadingsPeter’s forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City’s Extraordinary 1990s Crime DropPeter’s book, In Defense of FloggingPeter’s book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern DistrictTracy Mears on police legitimacy and the future of policingHeather Mac Donald’s book, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less SafeTanaya Devi and Roland Fryer’s paper, “Policing the Police: The Impact of ‘Pattern-or-Practice’ Investigations on Crime” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comIn this post-show bonus episode with Nikita, Mark, and LaJuan, we talk about what's required of a black intellectual, shifting alliances and ideological orientations, and the utility of the police.

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comI'm reposting an episode of the Invisible Men podcast, hosted by Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors. They had me on to talk about Late Admissions, the bias and development narratives, and a lot more. Ian and Nique have a stellar lineup of guests who are having the important conversations about race in America, so check them out at invisible.men. You can find video of this episode there or at my newsletter, https://glennloury.substack.com.Order Glenn's memoir, "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative" here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 Subscribe to The Glenn Show on Youtube:  @GlennLouryShow  Subscribe to The Glenn Show Clips Channel on Youtube:  @GlennLouryclips  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennlourysubstack.comVideo Links0:00 Intro1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”19:17 Ground News ad21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right26:24 The hard truths of global competition30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?36:09 ACTA ad38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?Recorded January 5, 2025Links and ReadingsCharles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind AmericaJD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisMatt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal styleGlenn’s forthcoming book, Self-CensorshipRichard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz SingerTrailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comIt may be cold outside, but the first Q&A of 2025 is a hot one. John and Glenn talk negotiating the modern mediasphere, the German language, education after affirmative action, code switching, social media and AI, and maintaining a friendship in spite of political differences.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn retiring from academia, I'm giving up what was once a vital source of intellectual inspiration. How should I go about replacing it? I'm talking through the problem with Nikita and Mark.