Corey acts as host of The Glenn Show, interviewing Glenn about his writings on race and affirmative action. Going back forty years, Glenn explains the evolution of his views on the legitimacy of racial preferences. Corey asks about the objection that affirmative action stigmatizes its beneficiaries. Corey notes that there was a time “when affirmative action was white.” The two disagree about Chief Justice Roberts’s view that legally enforced segregation in the past is necessary to justify racial assignment of students to public schools in the present. Glenn stresses the importance and ineradicable nature of racial discrimination in the intimate private sphere. Glenn considers what he would say to the more conservative Glenn of the 1980s. They conclude by discussing the so-called “mismatch hypothesis.”
Play entire videoGlenn and Corey’s previous diavlog
Corey’s new book, “When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?”
Glenn’s book, “The Anatomy of Racial Inequality”
Ira Katznelson’s book, “When Affirmative Action Was White”
John David Skrentny’s book, “The Ironies of Affirmative Action”
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor’s new book, “Mismatch”
View these comments on a non-video page
View these comments on a non-video page