The Many Lives of Glenn Loury

The Unspeakable Podcast

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury. Glenn is almost certainly no stranger to Unspeakable listeners, many of whom know him from his long-running podcast The Glenn Show.

In addition to opining there about political and social issues, Glenn is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005.

He grew up on the south side of Chicago and eventually became the first black professor of economics at Harvard and a prominent conservative thinker and policy expert. The Glenn Show debuted in 2012, and Glenn’s conversations about race with linguist and cultural critic John McWhorter were foundational to the emergence of the independent media sphere sometimes called the “heterodoxy” (at least they were Meghan’s gateway drug).

Glenn has published numerous books, but his latest, a memoir, is a major departure. Late Admissions: Confessions of A Black Conservative is not just an account of his professional trajectory but also an unflinching interrogation of his personal choices.

This interview is stunningly candid and also utterly delightful. Meghan is grateful to Glenn for his honesty, deep insight, and great humor.

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Glenn Loury is a professor of social sciences and economics at Brown University. His new book Late Admissions: Confessions of A Black Conservative is out May 14. You can find him on Substack here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	She took me aside one time and, you know, she said, if you're caught, never admit to the thing.
0:08.7	I don't care what they tell you.
0:09.8	They saw what they think they know, just deny it.
0:12.0	They don't want to believe it.
0:13.7	Just give them a reason to not believe it.
0:15.8	Was her advice to me?
0:16.8	And I remark in the book, I said, I'm sure she meant well.
0:22.8	But the main point is here is that she thought that that was advice that I was going to need. That the normalization of the
0:28.2	infidelity as simply a part of what people do and not condemnatory, not shameful, simply an
0:37.2	aspect of life. And by the way, if you're going to go that
0:39.9	way, and I expect you will, this is advice that you should have, deny everything. And I make good use
0:44.3	of that advice. Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Megan Dom. My guest this week
0:52.3	is almost certainly no stranger to my listeners. He is the economist
0:56.8	and academic Glenn Lowry. You probably know Glenn from his long-running podcast, The Glenn Show.
1:03.7	He's also the Merton P. Stoltz professor of the social sciences and a professor of economics at
1:09.2	Brown University, where he's taught since 2005. He's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and has had a fascinating life.
1:17.3	Glenn grew up on the south side of Chicago and eventually became the first black professor
1:21.6	of economics at Harvard and a prominent conservative intellectual. The Glenn show has been running
1:26.9	since 2012. Can you believe that?
1:29.8	And features conversations with various thinkers about public policy, education, and race.
1:35.4	Glenn's regular conversations with John McWhorter have been foundational to the emergence of
1:40.4	the intellectual sphere, sometimes,, called the heterodoxy.
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