6 June 2023
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Glenn Loury (Manhattan Institute, Brown University) and John McWhorter (Columbia University, Lexicon Valley, New York Times)
- John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” . 0:00
- How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields . 10:11
- Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … . 19:37
- … but the New York subway is getting scary . 27:23
- Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” . 37:39
- A possible left-wing objection to reparations . 50:45
- Glenn goes ham on reparations . 57:18
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Recorded:May 18
Posted:May 26, 2023
Download:
- Steven Pinker’s book, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
- John’s book, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca
- John’s book, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure” Standard English
- John’s language podcast, Lexicon Valley
- John, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
- John’s NYT piece about Jordan Neely, “A Killing on the F Train”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”
- Matthew Desmond’s book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America
- Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
- August Wilson’s play, Two Trains Running
The Glenn Show | May 26, 2023 | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
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