Rajiv Sethi – Self-Censorship on Campus
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The conversations that aren’t happening on college campuses
4:16 Staying informed about Israel-Palestine
9:22 Glenn: Don’t subject me to a loyalty test
12:14 Rajiv: High-minded principles alone won’t solve the self-censorship problem
18:11 “The Naked Emperor Equilibrium”
21:52 The game theoretical aspect of Glenn’s memoir
25:35 An homage to Thomas Schelling
27:31 Rajiv’s work on police use-of-force, then and now
30:36 The predictive value of political betting markets
42:44 Robert Solow’s intellectual family tree
46:16 The lopsided distribution of elite economists
49:08 Rajiv: Big econ departments should take more chances on candidates
51:52 The mind-boggling geographical variation in police killings
56:09 Why Rajiv doesn’t take pride in other Indian-Americans’ success
Recorded January 26, 2024
Links and Readings
Noam Dworman’s podcast, Live from the Table
Norman Finkelstein and Eli Lake on Live from the Table
Benny Morris’s book, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Crisis
Rashid Khalidi on Live from the Table
Benny Morris on Live from the Table
Tara Henley’s Lean Out
Ilan Pappé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein’s book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom
Glenn’s conversation with John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Committee Report
University of Chicago’s 2014 “Chicago Principles” on freedom of expression
Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s book, The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Second Skin
Timothy Kuran’s book, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
Thomas Schelling’s book, The Strategy of Conflict
Rajiv and Brendan O’Flahery’s book, Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and Pursuit of Justice
Gunnar Myrdal’s book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information
Rajiv’s Substack post, “Economic Growth and the Growth of Economics: Reflections on Robert Solow”
Ralph Ellison’s essay 1970 essay, “What America Would Be Like without Blacks”
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| 0:49.8 | I am the Merton Stokes Professor |
| 0:52.3 | in the Department of Economics at Brown University and John |
| 0:55.7 | Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute which sponsors the Glens Show. |
| 1:00.4 | And I'm joined by Rajiv Seti, who is professor in Barnard College, Columbia University of Economics and an old friend, colleague, collaborator, co-author. |
| 1:10.0 | We hung out in Bogota for a couple of summers together and you know I've just |
| 1:16.7 | there's a place on Martha's Vineyard guys Martin Vineyard. But Rajiv is no friend and a fine economist, |
| 1:25.0 | and I'm just excited to be able to talk with him. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm sure you're going to enjoy the conversation. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome Rajiv. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, thank you, Glenn. |
| 1:32.0 | It's great to be back. |
| 1:33.0 | We've had some great conversations over the years, both on your blogging heads show and offline. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, indeed, offline. |
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