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Sep 29, 2023 —
Dems Take Fire from the Left (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Sabrina Salvati)
- 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
Sep 22, 2023 —
How the Race Game Is Played (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Tyler Austin Harper)
- 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
Sep 15, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Shep Melnick
- 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
Sep 8, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- 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
Sep 3, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain
- 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
Aug 11, 2023 —
The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma)
- 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
Aug 4, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Jay Caspian Kang
- 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?
Jul 28, 2023 —
The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Arcidiacono)
- 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
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