x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

The Glenn Show

Race, inequality, and economics in the US and throughout the world from Glenn Loury. glennloury.substack.com

society & culture politics

All Episodes

18:04

TGS Live: Democrats' Leadership Crisis + Q&A

The Glenn Show ·

2025/11/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast Friday, John McWhorter and I took our ongoing conversation into new territory: we streamed it live. Eighteen years into our partnership, and we’re still finding ways to keep it fresh! In the first half of the show, we talk about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s position on Israel, which John believes is merely woke moralism. While I’m no

en

64:55

TGS Live: Seeing the Future in Thomas Sowell's Legacy

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/31

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast week’s conference in honor of Thomas Sowell was the culmination of a long year of anticipation, planning, reading, and thinking. In this long excerpt from my most recent livestream, I talk with my editor Mark Sussman about the conference events and my own contributions. I explain the importance of Friedrich Von Hayek to Sowell’s thought and work, and how Sowell extended Hayek’s work. The actor-writer Clifton Duncan drops in to talk about

en

5:18

TGS Live: Thomas Sowell, Clarence & Condi, and Black...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this edition of TGS Live, I talk about the events of the conference, my contribution, and one of the ideas informing my new book project. The conference honored the past accomplishments of Thomas Sowell, but it also pointed to the future. I heard the effects of Sowell’s writing and thinking coursing through vital new work, I met the two young winners of an

en

35:56

TGS Live: Tucker's Dangerous Civil War Rhetoric

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/24

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comTucker Carlson has been suggesting that a new civil war may be coming to the US. Is he trying to warn us? Or is he purposefully stoking the fire? Glenn takes Tucker to task.Today’s episode is just one segment from last week’s livestream. If you missed it and want to watch the full recording, click below to become a full subscriber. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported, so to those of us who are already full subscribers, let me

en

7:11

TGS Live: Is Tucker Warning Us about Civil War? Or...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comNote: Due to the AWS outage, many online services experienced disruptions throughout Monday. To ensure that everyone receives the episode, I thought it best to hold the episode until Amazon fixed the problem. Apologies for the delay.In this edition of the livestream, we're talking about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, creative destruction, nuclear war,

en

66:44

John McWhorter – Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/17

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Happy 60th, John! 2:20 2020 in hindsight 12:05 Ground News ad 14:01 Are Glenn and John helping to shift the Overton window? 18:25 Is Charlie Kirk the George Floyd of the right? 29:53 Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s conversation about Kirk 34:14 Glenn’s new book idea 41:43 Kirk’s comments on Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Joy Reid 48:05 The purging of the woke remnant 51:33 The responsibilities of the black

en

64:46

TGS Live: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Smug Rejection of Black...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/10

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThis week on The Glenn Show, Robert Patton-Spruill and I get into a detailed analysis of a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein. The show begins as a debate on their divergent reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, expressed in a New York Times column by Klein and a Vanity Fair piece by Coates. I find Coates’s smug, morally hectoring characterization of Kirk as a hate monger hard to stomach. As much as I admire parts

en

1:42

TGS Live: The Military in the Streets, TikTok &...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comLast Friday’s livestream was a hot one. Today I’m posting the video for all who missed it (you have to be a paid subscriber to hear the full version now, but everybody else will get it on Friday). But trust me, this is appointment viewing. I’ll be at Stanford later this week for a conference on the work of Thomas Sowell. But the livestream will return the week following.In the first half of the stream, Nikita

en

12:22

Glenn and LaJuan Loury – Love in a Time of Conflict

The Glenn Show ·

2025/10/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comNote: Links and info for my next livestream, which is happening this Friday, October 3 at 1:00 PM EDT, can be found at the end of this post.

en

114:36

Robert Wright – Free Speech after Gaza & Charlie Kirk

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/30

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comNormally, I release TGS episodes to full subscribers on Mondays and then to the general public on Fridays. But this conversation is a repost from my conversations with Bob Wright at his Nonzero podcast, so I figured I’d make this one an early public release. If you like starting your week off with The Glenn Show, and you’re not yet a full subscriber, consider becoming one by going here. We at The Glenn Show are almost entirely subscriber

en

53:44

John McWhorter & Clifton Duncan – Becoming Thomas Sowell

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/26

The Glenn Show is almost entirely listener supported. We need your help in order to keep bringing you the conversations you can't hear anywhere else. To get early episodes and much, much more, become a full subscriber at my Substack.You can keep tabs on Clifton’s progress and support his work at his Substack, Becoming Thomas Sowell.Video Links0:00 A Hard Day’s McWhorter3:51 Jimmy Kimmel and the collapse of the“bluegeois” paradigm9:47 Ground News ad11:30 Ideological gatekeeping in the arts17:02 The

en

8:17

September 2025 Q&A + No Livestream This Week

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn our latest Q&A, John McWhorter and I take questions on troubled black communities, the N-word, issues on which we've changed our minds, ratcheting down political tensions in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, and how we handle personal security. The Glenn Show is almost entirely viewer supported. If you like what you hear, head over to my Substack

en

4:00

TGS Live: My Dream for America after Charlie Kirk

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comLast Friday, I hosted a livestream featuring Nikita Petrov, Robert Patton-Spruill, and call-ins from viewers. Once again, our topic is the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We talk about my own cancelation by the Manhattan Institute, warding off the tyranny of the majority, the worrisome comments of truly powerful people like Elon Musk, JD Vance, and

en

59:00

John McWhorter & Marc Dunkelman – Why Nothing Works

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/19

Support The Glenn Show at https:/.glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Why Marc thinks nothing works6:45 Who decides the winners and losers in public trade-offs?12:50 Penn Station and public interest logjams20:29 Marc: We have Trump because people feel that government doesn’t work28:17 Two progressive conceptions of power33:03 Finding the balance between centralized and dispersed power39:05 Ok, nothing works. So how do we get things working?51:28 Marc: We need a return to Hamiltonian

en

9:27

TGS Live: Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, "Black...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn this episode, co-hosted with my editor Mark Sussman, I talk with viewers about the murders of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska, the “black crime” canard, the effects of immigration on black employment, and other weighty topics. It wasn’t all doom and gloom, though. A call from Richard Kim—a newly tenured professor of philosophy at Loyola University in

en

63:51

Jason Riley – Thomas Sowell's Path from Marx to Hayek

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/12

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 The upcoming Hoover Institution conference honoring Thomas Sowell 5:37 Sowell’s apprentice work at the University of Chicago 12:58 Ground News ad 14:45 Hayek’s influence on Sowell 19:55 Jason: No one is smarter than the market 24:58 The unconstrained vision vs. the constrained vision 33:04 Sowell’s contribution to economic literacy 37:44 Sowell’s tough early life and his path to Marx ]47:55 Jason: Sowell’s willingness to weigh

en

10:10

TGS Live: The Housing Provider Returns

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comOn this week's livestream, Nikita and I are joined by filmmaker, professor, master distiller, and "housing provider" Robert Patton-Spruill. And he does not disappoint. He begins by informing me of a connection between us: his father, then a professor of acting and directing at Boston University, used to smoke weed in front of my house. From there we get into a

en

67:36

Emily Skarbek – Thomas Sowell Today

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/05

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 What Thomas Sowell means to Emily 3:54 What’s the difference between a conservative and a classical liberal? 10:59 Ground News ad 12:45 Sowell’s interventions in price theory and microeconomics 19:31 The parallel careers of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams 24:51 Emily: Trump is not fulfilling Sowell’s vision of liberty 33:37 A Sowellian critique of expert-driven COVID policies 45:08 The risks of uncertainty in Trump’s economic

en

2:50

TGS Live: Progressive Language Policing, Gaza, MAGA...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/09/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comFor the full episode and to support The Glenn Show, visit https://glennloury.substack.comOn this recording of my latest livestream, I sit down with my editor, Mark Sussman. Inspired by a recent memo posted by liberal moderate think tank Third Way, Mark and I talk a bit about the communicative dynamics of progressive nomenclature, e.g., “chestfeeding” rather than “breastfeeding” and other awkward neologisms. Can the

en

52:20

Ted & Courtney Balaker – The Psychic Costs of Campus...

The Glenn Show ·

2025/08/29

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comOrder Glenn's new book, Self-Censorship, here or where you get your books: Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxwwVideo Links0:00 How woke campus culture degrades mental health 5:47 The rise of “microaggressions” '8:21 The harms caused by discourses of harm 13:47 The digital lives of children 19:08 Why Courtney and Ted produced Coddling themselves 24:56 A Nigerian

en

392 results

Similar Podcasts

Voices of Life

APG Mannheim

Promo Estereo Podcast

Promo Estereo

Talking Timelines Podcast

Talkingtimelines

גיקונומי

ראם שרמן ודורון ניר

Drømmefanger

Drømmefanger