It sounds like both an extraordinary, alive, vivid, social, cultural explosion of things, a real life. Tell us first of all about your childhood on the South Side of Chicago. You said you're 74 and writing a memoir now must be a very interesting thing, a very sort of sobering thing, to look at all that you've been and done. How you came to be who you are and the interactions you've had as an intellectual, and also as an African American, in your life's journey. Good to be with you.Īndrew : I want to talk to you, first of all, about exactly what you're writing about, which is a memoir. Glenn, it's an honor to have you on the Dishcast. A very provocative title, but a very complicated and interesting life. He's also writing, and trying to finish, actually, a memoir, The Enemy Within. I've listened to him and John talk for years now and I've always learned something from it.Īnd when Glenn is in full rant mode, I just want to sit back and have a bubble bath and just enjoy the sheer glorious ranting that he does. His longtime podcast, the Glenn Show, is now on Substack, where he regularly appears with John McWhorter. He's written for many publications over the years, including the New Republic, including for me back in the day, and the Public Interest. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown, as well as a Paulson Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is Glenn Loury and he's an economist, academic, and writer, now extremely well known and discussed and debated online.Īt the age of 33, he became the first African American professor of economics at Harvard to get tenure. Today we have somebody I've admired for most of my adult life, and have identified with in some ways, although I'm not of his intellectual caliber. … I’m not less black for being, as it were, a free man.”Īndrew : Hi there guys, and welcome back to the Dishcast. “I wouldn’t take solving the racial wealth gap as a goal of public policy, to be honest with you … Why not simply address ourselves, to the extent that we’re concerned about the lack of wealth of some quarters in the society, to the lack of wealth? What’s race got to do with it?” That was the unfriendly way of putting it. I was unhappy with my life as a token and a mascot. That was the pull for me to reorient myself. “I’m a black kid from the South Side of Chicago. This episode originally aired on January 13, 2023. He’s currently writing a memoir of his incredibly colorful life, The Enemy Within, which we talk about at length. His longtime podcast, The Glenn Show, is now on Substack, where he regularly appears with John McWhorter. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, as well as a Paulson Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. At the age of 33, he became the first African-American professor of economics at Harvard to get tenure, and he’s currently the Merton P.
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