#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

Glenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at
Brown University, and a prominent podcaster and social critic who
speaks and writes about race, inequality, and social policy. Please
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:12)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (16:00) - History of slavery (30:39) -
Equality of outcome (47:02) - Math and economics (1:03:17) - Racial
groups (1:16:33) - Black patriotism (1:26:26) - MLK and Malcolm X
(1:40:07) - Joe Rogan controversy (1:59:23) - Accusation of racism
(2:07:08) - Elon Musk and Twitter (2:12:41) - Universities
(2:21:19) - Cognitive inequality (2:33:45) - Politics (2:53:10) -
Ketanji Brown Jackson (2:59:14) - Thomas Sowell (3:04:28) - Barack
Obama (3:23:06) - Mortality (3:35:20) - Meaning of life