Glenn Loury II – Love, Death & the Lourys

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Glenn II returns to The Glenn Show

2:17 Glenn II: Dad, you’re not really a “conservative” in the present-day sense of the term

13:20 Glenn and Glenn II agree that the “systemic racism” argument is overblown but disagree over what to do about it

22:04 What social conditions lead to the kind of behavior Glenn often condemns?

31:36 The luck and privilege that allowed Glenn to recover from his mistakes

39:19 Glenn II: “I found myself getting angry at someone who doesn’t exist anymore”

46:59 The conversation Glenn never had with his father

51:06 What Late Admissions taught Glenn II about his father

57:32 Grace in the face of public scandal

1:01:28 Love, death, and the Lourys

Recorded June 15, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Scenes from The Wire, Season 4

Glenn and Glenn II’s September 2018 Bloggingheads conversation

Glenn II’s book, Invisible Funerals: A Tale of Nine Burials

Glenn II’s book, Love Letters & Elegies: Tales from Beyond the Pale

Glenn II’s book, What Death Can Touch

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0:46.2	Hello everybody out there who has tuned in
0:49.3	to the Glen Show.
0:50.0	This is Glen Lowry.
0:52.0	I teach at Brown University and I am John Paulson Senior
0:55.3	Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. I'm host of the Blen show and I'm joined this
1:00.9	week by my son, Lynn Lowry,
1:05.0	the second, who has kindly agreed to on the day
1:10.1	before Father's Day we speak here on the 15th of June 2024 has finally
1:18.6	agreed to spend some time talking with his dad so I really appreciate it. You can introduce yourself
1:24.9	further if you like to. Glenn, I don't want to characterize you in any way that you
1:30.4	might think would be an adequately effusive characterization.
1:35.0	So welcome, Blin.
1:38.0	Thank you for having me.
1:40.0	I'm so happy to be here.
1:42.0	Hi, I'm also Len Lowry. I don't have as long a list of
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