Rob Henderson – The Cost of Luxury Beliefs

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 62 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 What makes an “elite”?

4:37 Rob’s very rough early childhood

7:39 Rob’s experience with foster care and adoption

12:35 Why Rob joined the Air Force

17:23 The uses of military discipline

22:15 A 25-year-old military vet freshman at Yale

24:55 Luxury beliefs and cultural capital

29:56 Who bears the cost of defunding the police?

35:43 Two-parent households for me but not for thee

40:59 Revealed preferences and implicit understanding

46:57 Interclass resentment as a political weapon

52:45 How Rob became both the “token liberal” and the “token conservative”

58:02 Rob: Poverty doesn’t necessarily generate social dysfunction

Recorded February 19, 2024

Links and Readings

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

Rob’s Substack

Rob’s Boston Globe op-ed, “The SAT is pathway to more college diversity, not less”

Rob’s WSJ piece, “‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford”

Robert Putnam’s book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class

Pierre Bourdieu’s book, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

Michael Knox Beran’s book, Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

Rob’s NYT op-ed, “Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative"

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0:46.5	Hi everybody, this is Glenn Lowry.
0:48.1	You've tuned into the Glenn show.
0:51.2	I am professor of economics and the Social Sciences at Brown University and John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
0:59.0	And I'm joined today by Rob Henderson, who is a freelance writer, a psychologist, author of a memoir
1:09.0	that's just coming out momentarily called Troubled, a memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.
1:22.3	I got it. He's a sub-stacker. You can find Rob Henderson. Substack.com. He has his own web page of course where his writings are available.
1:34.0	Recent piece in the New York Times,
1:37.0	extolling the virtues of the SAT.
1:40.0	Recent piece in the Wall Street Journal talking about luxury beliefs, which is the thing that
1:46.5	Rob has been writing about for a while.
1:49.7	So thanks very much for joining us here.
1:51.5	Oh, I forgot. Affiliated faculty, what did you call yourself at the University of Austin, the new university that's starting up in Austin, Texas?
1:59.0	Right, the title they gave us was founding faculty fellow.
2:03.0	A lot of f's there, literation.
2:05.0	So we are colleagues in a way because I'm an advisor to the University of Austin,
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