Michael Shellenberger – The Censorship-Industrial Complex

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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0:00 Michael’s new role at the University of Austin

5:41 Michael’s “civilization” trilogy

9:40 The rise of pro-censorship opinion among Democrats

17:05 Do new communication technologies require revising our ideas about free speech?

21:53 The Censorship-Industrial Complex

28:10 The anti-censorship benefits of the Streisand Effect

35:37 The government’s role in censorship at Facebook

42:04 What you can’t say about war

45:19 The dehumanizing effects of Black Lives Matters protests

55:25 Forming an anti-nihilist coalition

1:00:36 Embracing American liberal democracy

Recorded March 21, 2024

Links and Readings

Michael’s Substack, Public

University of Austin

Michael’s book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Michael’s book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Andrew Lobaczewski’s book, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism

Martin Gurri’s book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The WPATH Files

John McWhorter’s book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death

Glenn’s City Journal essay, “The Case for Black Patriotism”

John Burn-Murdoch’s Financial Times piece, “America is undergoing a racial realignment”

Abigail Schrier’s book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Rob Henderson’s book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Glenn’s conversation with Rob Henderson

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0:46.2	Hello everybody, Glenn Lowry here, the Glenn Show.
0:50.0	I'm with Michael Schoenberger. I teach at Brown University and I'm a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
0:55.7	which sponsors the Glen Show and Michael is an investigative journalist of some
0:59.9	renown what's your official title these days, Michael?
1:04.0	I have a few titles. I would say I'm the CBR chair of censorship politics and free speech at the University of Austin. I'm the founder of Public a sub-stacic publication and I'm the founder of Public a sub-stack
1:16.4	publication and I'm the founder and president of Environmental Progress which is a research
1:22.4	Institute that is going to change its name to civilization works on May 1st.
1:30.0	That's a lot. UATX, I have a minor affiliation myself.
1:35.1	I'm an informal advisor to Panel Pinellos and Panel Canelles and Company
1:45.4	recruited by Barry Wise and Neil Ferguson
1:48.1	and these people.
1:50.3	You're actually signing on to a chair there.
1:54.0	Yeah, so I'm now I'm a chair and we just bought a house in Austin.
1:59.7	We're gonna spend at least three months a year there.
2:04.3	My daughter is graduating from high school
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