10 June 2023
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Jun 2, 2023 —
How to Teach African American History (Glenn Loury, Charles Love & Donique Rolle)
- Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism
- Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory
- Charles: We are the 97%!
- How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history
- What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say?
- What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and black history?
- Sexuality’s ever-shifting Overton window
- Why Donique, a public school teacher, advocates for homeschooling
- Expanding the canon of historic black figures
May 26, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me”
- How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields
- Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die …
- … but the New York subway is getting scary
- Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme”
- A possible left-wing objection to reparations
- Glenn goes ham on reparations
May 19, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Norman Finkelstein
- Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates?
- Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz
- Is Israel an apartheid state?
- Identifying with Paul Robeson
- Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!
- Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam”
- What’s become of Angela Davis?
- Cornel West’s chosen path
- Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick”
- The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama
- South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics
- Would Bernie have won in 2016?
Apr 28, 2023 —
I Feel, Therefore I Am (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Mark Goldblatt)
- Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
- Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought
- The “mysticism” of woke thinking
- Learning from Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations
- John breaks his silence on transgender issues
- The political consequences of subjectivism
- Why Mark thinks transgender people are mentally disordered
- What does the T have to do with the LGB?
- Mark: Transgender people deserve respect
- Distinguishing between strategy and reality
Apr 21, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner
- The gigification of academia
- Is education just another commodity?
- What do historians do?
- Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel
- The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university
- Using (and getting used by) new technology
- An alternate history of global economic development
- The end of the American century
- Daniel’s critique of US support for Ukraine
Apr 8, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Jonathan Rauch
- What’s wrong with cancelation?
- A defense of Charles Murray
- Cancelation and the closet
- Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
- Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor
- Is Trump an agent of disinformation?
- What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common
- Why Jonathan is hopeful about the constitution of knowledge
Mar 31, 2023 —
Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law (Glenn Loury, David Sacks, and Spencer Segal)
- The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at Stanford Law School
- Why did people have a problem with Duncan?
- Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges
- The necessity of free inquiry and reasoned discourse
- What it’s like being a FedSoc conservative at Stanford Law
- The fallout from the Duncan protests
- The vulgarity of the insults hurled at Duncan
- The role of conservatives at Stanford
Mar 25, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
- John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher
- The rigors of the lecture circuit
- The difference between equity and equality
- How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else?
- The new black bourgeoisie
- Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative?
- John sets the record straight on his dancing skills
Mar 17, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Sylvester Gates
- What led Jim to the forefront of physics
- Jim explains supersymmetry
- Is there racism in the sciences?
- The role of culture and imagination in the sciences
- The scientific “big bang” in Europe
- How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores
- Jim: “Genius” is a verb
- Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation
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