5 December 2023
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Dec 4, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Erec Smith
- 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?
Nov 29, 2023 —
Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)
- 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
Nov 17, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk
- 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
Nov 12, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan
- 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
Nov 3, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- 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
Oct 30, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John Mearsheimer
- 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
Oct 13, 2023 —
A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee)
- 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?
Oct 9, 2023 —
The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik)
- 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
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
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