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

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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

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TGS Live: The Housing Provider Returns

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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

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67:36

Emily Skarbek – Thomas Sowell Today

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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

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2:50

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

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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

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52:20

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

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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

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5:56

August 2025 Q&A

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2025/08/27

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 the Q&A, Glenn and John take questions on MLK and white moderates, audience capture, civilian casualties in Gaza, "I have to do X" vs. "I get to do X," Trump's performance as president, the role of trustees and administration in determining university policy, and race and genes.

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TGS Live: Glenn Takes Calls on Israel-Palestine,...

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2025/08/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSubscribe to The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThe livestreaming experiment continues here at TGS. I never know what’s going to come at me. I’m operating outside my comfort zone. Of course, that’s what makes it fun. The callers often ask me to weigh in on a whole range of subjects I’d never think up on my own, like embryo screening and the frustrations of Connecticut landlords. (And speaking of

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73:59

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison – Is the World Headed...

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2025/08/22

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comThis episode was originally recorded for Danny and Derek's podcast American Prestige and cross posted here. Subscribe to American Prestige at https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/joinOrder 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 The origins of Self-Censorship4:11 Black and

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4:57

TGS Live: The Exhaustion of the West, Life after...

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2025/08/17

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 livestream, TGS editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission and its rather unpleasant but compelling critique of modern existence, after which we take questions from viewers and callers. We get into some unexpected territory, like life after death (I don’t believe in it), the existence of alien intelligence (it

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55:51

John McWhorter – America's Shifting Position on Gaza

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2025/08/15

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 John: Not all of Trump’s demands on Columbia are crazy 3:45 Are the accusations of antisemitism at Columbia apt? 12:43 Ground News ad 14:22 The shifting public perception of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza 24:30 The historical legacy of Gaza’s starvation 27:40 Glenn: There are ways to destroy Israel without an army 32:21 The lull in American race politics 38:22 Has the race debate devolved to Sidney Sweeney’s jeans? 47:27

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12:20

TGS Live: Can We Survive the Wisdom of the Market?

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2025/08/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comOrder Self-Censorship here or wherever you get your books:Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/683p6kk3 Barnes & Noble: https://tinyurl.com/4yvz4fta Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/44rznxwwIn this conversation, my editor Mark Sussman and I discuss Kamala Harris’s forthcoming book, 107 Days, and the dire state of publishing. I’ve been reading a lot of Thomas Sowell in

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68:42

Rajiv Sethi – Will Trump Destroy Elite Universities?

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2025/08/08

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration4:11 Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual13:34 How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions?25:31 What really matters in college admissions?29:47 Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s34:16 Rajiv: If the Trump administration wants to destroy universities, it has the resources to do it40:07 Is

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8:20

July 2025 Q&A

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2025/07/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comIt’s the middle of the summer, it’s hot, and John McWhorter and I are back for another Substack subscriber only Q&A session. In this episode, we take questions about leadership in the black community, critical listening, Percival Everett's novel James, immigration, white women studying black women's history, right-wing identity politics, and the Free Press.The Glenn Show is supported by listeners like you. To watch

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TGS Live: Viewers Call-In on Jeffrey Epstein, Campus...

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2025/07/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comIn lieu of a regular episode this week, I’m presenting a version of our latest livestream. Last week we debuted what I hope will be an ongoing feature of these livestreams: viewer call-ins. Nikita has been working on setting this up for a while now, and as you’ll see, we’ve still got some kinks to work out. We were able to take a number of calls from viewers,

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62:20

Cornel West – The Black Intellectual in a Declining...

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2025/07/25

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence 2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative” 9:34 Ground News ad 11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason 19:33 The Loury family legacy 25:01 Does race still matter? 34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire 45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black community 51:42 Keep the funk, and die with a smile on your face 55:40 The Democratic Party plantationRecorded

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67:23

John McWhorter – Sparring over Mamdani, Gaza, and Trump

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2025/07/18

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC Democratic primaries 12:07 Ground News ad 14:05 The War on Terror and the War in Gaza 28:54 Should Trump fear Mamdani? 32:02 Glenn: Trump is running the table 42:26 John: Glenn, you’re getting caught up in the Trump Show 48:05 Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and the legacy of conservatism 53:56 Glenn’s encounters with Willian F. Buckley 59:30 Remembering Stephan and Abigail ThernstromRecorded July 7,

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10:41

TGS Live: Self-Censorship Today

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2025/07/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comMy latest book, Self-Censorship, is coming out in a couple weeks, and I’m excited to share it with you. As a kind of apéritif, Mark Sussman and I livestreamed our wide-ranging discussion of all things self-censorious. We talk about the book, of course, but also the economics of addiction, the trouble with streaming music, the best and worst of airplane

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58:13

Greg Lukianoff – The Legal Battle to Defend Campus...

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2025/07/11

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 The return of the “speech is violence” argument6:05 Who’s the arbiter of “misinformation” and “disinformation”?8:06 The University of Virginia topped FIRE’s college free speech rankings14:08 The Victorianism of the Woke22:10 The comedian as gadfly24:40 Do we need to “protect” Jewish students from pro-Palestine speech?31:23 Harvard Derangement Syndrome37:13 FIRE’s defense of Amy Wax39:59 Using Title IX to restrict speech46:24

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17:52

TGS Live: What to a Slav Is the Fourth of July?

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2025/07/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit glennloury.substack.comSupport The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comI’m back with my creative director Nikita Petrov on our latest livestream. As you may know, Nikita is Russian. He’s spent some time in the US, but he’s still got a lot of questions about how we do things here and why. This was recorded the day before the Independence Day holiday, and we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to address some of Nikita’s

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59:33

John McWhorter & Jens Ludwig – The Unexpected Origins...

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2025/07/04

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.comVideo Links0:00 How Jens got interested in American gun violence2:45 What’s “unexpected” about the origins of gun violence?5:29 Race and the culture of gun violence9:30 Ground News ad11:20 Are high rates of gun violence a cultural issue or an equilibrium?17:09 Is urban gun violence the result of rational behavior?24:34 The link between Kahnemanian “fast thinking” and violent conflict36:46 Are gun violence interruptions scalable?40:52 The role

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