Reza Aslan sits down for drinks with the most influential writers working today across film, literature, and music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A weekly podcast, Metaphysical Milkshake, the show where we go deep, we get weird, and we search for the meaning of life along the way. In this show, your co-hosts in existential crimes, actor Rainn Wilson and scholar Reza Aslan guide you through conversations about Life’s Big Questions.
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In a nod to the protest albums of the 1960s and 70s, Bhi Bhiman’s Peace of Mind finds inspiration in the chaos that is modern American life. So much so that he had to release the album as a podcast and dig deeper on everything from immigration to religion, racism to Russia with experts, activists and artists like author Dave Eggers, religious scholar Reza Aslan, attorney & advocate Rabia Chaudry, LaDoris Cordell, and more. Part politics, part Behind the Music, all fascinating, Peace of Mind ...
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Examining the systems and institutions of Christianity in America. Season 2: White evangelicalism & media. Support this podcast: postevangelicalpost.com/support.
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Glenn Loury invites guests from the worlds of academia, journalism and public affairs to share insights on economic, political and social issues.
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Many of us experience sports much like religion: they give us a shared identity, a sense of community, and a common purpose. So what wisdom can we draw from the sports world to help us navigate the chaos and confusion -- and also the awakening and transformation -- happening today? Join host Varun Soni, Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life at the University of Southern California, in this limited-run series from Religion of Sports.
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Meet the Author is a podcast dedicated to the love of books. Each episode, we interview an author launching their book to market and get the story behind the story they’re sharing with the world. Writing a book is a magical, at times brutal, mystical experience. An author's heart and soul is in their book, and those soul-deep insights and a-ha moments are what we bring to you each week on this show. Pub Date is hosted by Allison Trowbridge. an author and the founder and CEO of Copper, a plat ...
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Claudine Gay, MLK, and GLENN'S NEW BOOK (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Preorder Glenn’s forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative ... Why Glenn wrote a memoir (and why you should order it now) ... A ringing endorsement from John ... What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean in 2024? ... Preserving King’s belief in “the content of our character” ... What would King say to Claudine Gay? ..…
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Getting Unions Out of Government (Glenn Loury & Philip Howard)
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Philip’s early work on post-nuclear war recovery ... What’s wrong with the EPA, OSHA, and the EEOC? ... Philip: We’ve degenerated into a culture of distrust ... The problems of national security and public health ... Are public employee unions constitutional? ... Philip: “Public service is repellant to good candidates” ... Philip: Police unions pre…
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An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee)
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Tabia’s early career as a teacher ... Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director ... The antisemitism problem at De Anza ... The inescapable BIPOC binary ... From disagreement to deplatforming ... Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty ... How attempts to silence Tabia backfired ... Tabia’s broad vision of diversity ... Learning from th…
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The Truth about George Floyd's Death (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions ... John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death ... The price of a “poetic truth” ... Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict? ... Glenn: George Floyd was no hero ... The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct ... Is there any hope of changing…
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What Black America Needs to Thrive (Glenn Loury & Erec Smith)
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Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”? ... Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought ... Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee ... Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec ... How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community ... Erec: The onus is on us, not affirma…
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Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)
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The state of campus speech after 10/7 ... Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel? ... “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas ... Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics ... The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams ... The linguistic amb…
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The Identity Trap (Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk)
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A quick announcement ... What led Yascha to write about identity ... An intellectual history of “identity synthesis” ... What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”? ... From postmodernism to post-civil rights ... The three key claims of identity synthesis ... What led up to the summer of 2020? ... The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiA…
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An American Martyr in Persia (Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan)
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Persia at the turn of the twentieth century ... Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions ... Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time? ... How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution ... How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution ... The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran ... The theological origin of the Isla…
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Thinking Through the Gaza War (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Why John thinks pro-Hamas sentiment on the American left is racist ... Distinguishing between anti-colonialism and antisemitism ... There are great crimes in America’s past. But we shouldn’t let them define us. ... Glenn: We’re standing on the precipice of something catastrophic ... John’s proposal for the US’s role in Israel’s domestic conflict ..…
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America's Sunk Cost in Ukraine (Glenn Loury & John Mearsheimer)
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Why John thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rational ... How small states deal with world powers ... If Russia’s action were rational, were the US’s? ... John: The Ukraine invasion violates international law, but Russia has reason to see it as just ... The risk of escalation ... Zelensky’s expert manipulation of the West ... Is it a coincidenc…
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A Debate on Affirmative Action, Live at Holy Cross (Glenn Loury, Randall Kennedy, and Renu Mukherjee)
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Introduction by Greg Burnep ... What does affirmative action mean in 2023? ... Randy’s distinction between “disadvantage” and “discrimination” ... Diversity’s double-talk ... Did the Supreme Court say discrimination is allowed at military academies? ... Glenn: Affirmative action distracts us from bigger problems ... Affirmative action is an elite p…
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The End of Ibram X. Kendi? (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Dan Subotnik)
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What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway? ... Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist ... CRT’s racial power-grab ... Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans? ... Disguising failure as victimology ... Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing ... The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal ... John: “I’m emba…
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Dems Take Fire from the Left (Glenn Loury, LaJuan Loury, and Sabrina Salvati )
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How Sabby got her start on YouTube ... What happened to the Justice Democrats’ “hostile takeover”? ... Is the US sliding into fascism? ... The tension between race and class on the left ... Donald Trump’s rising popularity among black men ... The military-industrial complex and climate change ... Sabby’s argument for worker co-ops ... Finding (some…
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How the Race Game Is Played (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Tyler Austin Harper)
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Tyler’s concept of “racial gamification” ... Affirmative action in spirit and practice ... Why can’t we just determine admissions based on academic merit alone? ... The fading popularity of “traditional” affirmative action ... Re-weighting and funding the admissions process ... How can we get white “allies” to act normal around black people? ... Ca…
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The Crucible of Desegregation (Glenn Loury & Shep Melnick)
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Biden’s new DEI initiatives ... The disparate uses of disparate impact ... Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality ... The problem with claims that education is resegregating ... Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s? ... Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating …
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Whose Election Narrative? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story? ... What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John ... How John makes the sausage at the New York Times ... John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry ... Is wokeness on the wane? ... What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain ... A Democrat by any other name ... John makes a wild predi…
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The Adversity of Diversity (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain)
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Why Carol joined Black Voices for Trump ... Why should black people support Trump? ... Carol: Democrats stole the 2020 election ... Does Trump face a credible assassination threat? ... The redefinition of white supremacy ... Deracializing the crime debate ... Carol’s new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a P…
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What Were We Thinking in 2007? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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A sixteen-year-long conversation ... Race and socioeconomics on the cusp of the Obama Era ... The myth of black poverty and deindustrialization ... Glenn pulls rank ... Why Glenn changed his mind about the Manhattan Institute ... Is the think tank world any more “objective” than academia? ...Kirjoittanut bloggingheads.tv
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An American-Israeli at the Ukrainian Front (Glenn Loury & Haim Shweky)
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Haim’s history with The Glenn Show ... How Haim ended up fighting in Ukraine ... The legionnaire’s lingua franca ... Haim’s riposte to Cornel West on Ukraine ... A pen in one hand and a gun in the other ... Haim: Ukraine’s sovereignty and national identity must be respected ... Is the two-state solution dead? ...…
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The Spirit of Wokeness (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Ian Buruma)
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The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness ... Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion? ... Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems ... How Ian experienced his own cancelation ... America’s exportation of wokeness ... Has wokeness aided and abetted Trump and Brexit? ... John: Enslaved people did find ways to…
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Affirmative Elitism (Glenn Loury & Jay Caspian Kang)
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How Jay’s position on affirmative action changed ... Jay: I can’t see the virtue in affirmative action as it’s practiced ... Why did so many Asian students defend policies that discriminated against Asians? ... The hidden cultural argument in the California Mathematics Framework ... Is the “people of color coalition” coming apart? ... Why so little…
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The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Arcidiacono)
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Peter’s role in the Supreme Court affirmative action case ... Are legacy admissions affirmative action by another name? ... Why Peter got interested in affirmative action ... Glenn was for affirmative action before he was against it ... Peter: Universities are not honest about admissions ... The brilliance of Roland Fryer ... Campus diversity after…
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Can Hitchens Save the Left? (Glenn Loury & Matt Johnson)
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How Matt first encountered Christopher Hitchens ... Matt’s new book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment ... Why Matt thinks Cornel West’s Vietnam-Afghanistan analogy is flawed ... What’s worth preserving in the left-liberal tradition? ... Matt: Identity politics is a “toxin” ... Was …
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The End of Affirmative Action (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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John: Let’s be honest about what “taking race into account” means in affirmative action ... Glenn: How can anyone argue that race-based affirmative action doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment? ... Why are we so focused on elite institutions? ... John: The University of California works just fine without “racial preferences” ... “You’re pulling the la…
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A COVID Dissenter Speaks Out (Glenn Loury & Jay Bhattacharya)
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The problem with scientific consensus ... Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe epidemiologists” ... Jay: We need to engage with everyone—even those with mistaken beliefs ... Persuading science skeptics ... How do we stop COVID overreach from happening again? ... Jay: Gain-of-function research is impossible to do safely ... Are some ideas…
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Why Is Cornel West Running for President? (Glenn Loury & Cornel West)
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Why Cornel is running for president ... How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home ... Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters ... Is there tension between Cornel’s commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class? ... The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism ... Might Co…
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Canceling "Culture in America" (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jonathan Rieder)
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Why Jonathan’s course “Culture in America” got canceled ... The fragility of liberal arts education ... Managing “CRT zealots” in the classroom ... Is there a future for free inquiry? ... John: Black middle-class students don’t need affirmative action ... Is diversity the problem, or is it elitism? ... The virtues (and virtue signaling) of Randall …
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The Making of a Political Warrior (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Inside the mind of a crack columnist ... The blowback from Norman Finkelstein’s TGS appearance ... Is it enough to be a “happy warrior” for your cause? ... How did MLK become MLK? ... What’s in a name when that name is “Woodrow Wilson”? ... Glenn: “Clarence Thomas’s name should be on public school buildings” ...…
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How to Teach African American History (Glenn Loury, Charles Love, and Donique Rolle)
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Charles’s argument for emphasizing education over systemic racism ... Donique: Teaching African American history doesn’t require critical race theory ... Charles: We are the 97%! ... How Donique balances oppression and triumph in black history ... What does Florida’s Stop WOKE Act actually say? ... What’s wrong with integrating LGBT history and bla…
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Race, Reparations, and Jordan Neely (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me” ... How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields ... Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die … ... … but the New York subway is getting scary ... Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme” ... A possible left-wing objection to reparations ... Glenn go…
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Why Wokeness Is a Scam (Glenn Loury & Norman Finkelstein)
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Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates? ... Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz ... Is Israel an apartheid state? ... Identifying with Paul Robeson ... Norman’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! ... Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam” ... What’s become of Angela Davis? ... Cornel West's chosen path ... Obama’s s…
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I Feel, Therefore I Am (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Mark Goldblatt)
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Mark Goldblatt’s recent book, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism ... Wokeism’s roots in postmodern thought ... The “mysticism” of woke thinking ... Learning from Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations ... John breaks his silence on transgender issues ... The political consequences of subjectivism ... Why Mark thinks transgender p…
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Soul Boom, or Why Do We Need a Spiritual Revolution?
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Welcome back Milkshakers! In this special episode of Metaphysical Milkshake, Rainn and Reza reunite to discuss Rainn's new book, Soul Boom. Together they explore the benefits that spirituality gives us to create transformation on both a personal and a global level. Soul Boom explodes everywhere on April 25th. Order now via: https://soulboom.com…
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The End of the American Century (Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner)
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The gigification of academia ... Is education just another commodity? ... What do historians do? ... Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel ... The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university ... Using (and getting used by) new technology ... An alternate history of global economic development ... The end of the American century …
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A Liberal Defense of Free Speech (Glenn Loury & Jonathan Rauch)
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What’s wrong with cancelation? ... A defense of Charles Murray ... Cancelation and the closet ... Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth ... Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor ... Is Trump an agent of disinformation? ... What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common ... Why Jonat…
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Free Speech and Protest at Stanford Law (Glenn Loury, David Sacks, and Spencer Segal)
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The disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at Stanford Law School ... Why did people have a problem with Duncan? ... Will the current Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges ... The necessity of free inquiry and reasoned discourse ... What it’s like being a FedSoc conservative at Stanford Law ... The fallout from the Duncan protests ... The v…
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From Equity to Equality (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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John’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher ... The rigors of the lecture circuit ... The difference between equity and equality ... How do we know that African Americans are just as smart as everyone else? ... The new black bourgeoisie ... Standards in the arts are relative. But how relative? ... John sets the record straight on his danc…
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Diversifying the Scientific Imagination (Glenn Loury & Sylvester Gates)
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What led Jim to the forefront of physics ... Jim explains supersymmetry ... Is there racism in the sciences? ... The role of culture and imagination in the sciences ... The scientific “big bang” in Europe ... How Jim accounts for racial disparities in test scores ... Jim: “Genius” is a verb ... Why Jim worries about DEI and cancelation ...…
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The Private Side of Public Life (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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John’s awkward run-in at the farmer’s market ... Will people be reading Ibram X. Kendi in 2043? ... Regret, doubt, and going against the tide ... How Glenn and John negotiate their public profiles ... Did Scott Adams deserve to get canceled? ... What’s going on beneath the Scott Adams controversy? ...…
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The Journey of Humanity (Glenn Loury & Oded Galor)
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Oded's new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality ... How inequality and growth emerged over the course of human history ... Breaking free of a 300,000-year-old stagnation cycle ... Humanity's phase shift into modernity ... Inequality and the formation of institutions ... The deep links between geography and institution…
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Introducing: Roughhousing
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In Religion of Sports' latest podcast series, Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply personal stories of kids who have hazed, parents who have fought for accountability, coaches who are scared of what their players do when they’re not looking, and …
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Black Professor in Anti-Racist Hell (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Vincent Lloyd)
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Woke religion or woke cult? ... Does suffering confer authority on the sufferer? ... A world without “anti-Black domination” ... Is there an alternative to the criminal justice system? ... Domination and the purpose of the university ... How Vincent’s Telluride Association seminar blew up ... The narrowness of the social justice framework ... Glenn…
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Black, Christian, and Conservative (Glenn Loury & Delano Squires)
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Why Delano is a conservative ... Delano’s critique of Raphael Warnock and the “Afristocracy” ... Delano: “The designer is the definer” ... Abortion and Black lives ... Are abortion rights necessary to protect women’s rights? ... Delano: Government is no substitute for fatherhood ... Can we reweave the social fabric? ...…
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The Killing of Tyre Nichols (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Peter Moskos)
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The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing ... The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing ... What set off the cops? ... Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded ... Should we get rid of qualified immunity? ... Policing and white supremacy ... Peter: We on the left have ceded law and…
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The Organizer Mindset (Glenn Loury & Ernesto Cortés, Jr.)
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Ernie’s work as an organizer ... Tension, polarization, and reconciliation ... The drama of organizing ... The definition of power ... Ernesto’s work getting running water and sewers to border communities ... Market activity vs. market ideology ... What’s wrong with meritocracy? ... Does identitarianism stand in the way of reconciliation? ...…
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Glenn and John Go Across the Pond (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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Glenn and John go to Cambridge ... The Hamline University Prophet Muhammad controversy ... John: “Physics is physics” ... The Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies ... Is “getting past race” more trouble than it’s worth? ... Is Joe Biden patronizing black people? ... How a black musical changed the sound of Broadway ...…
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Climate Science’s Unsettled Questions (Glenn Loury & Steven Koonin)
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Steven’s best-selling book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters ... Steven: Concerns about catastrophic climate change “beggar belief” ... The complexities of climate change models ... Should we worry about rising sea levels? ... Hurricanes, tornados, and other extreme weather events ... Is a zero-emissions…
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The Best of Glenn and John 2022 (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
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A brief intro from Glenn ... The lionization of the lightweights ... The unified field theory of non-whiteness ... An honest conversation about crime ... Glenn’s birthday menu ... It’s time to choose a side ... Clarence Thomas, black icon ... Policing Joe Rogan ... By any means necessary? ...Kirjoittanut bloggingheads.tv
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The Tyranny of Merit (Glenn Loury & Michael Sandel)
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Some of Michael’s key works ... Meritocratic ideals and meritocratic fantasies ... The animus against elites ... Shouldn’t innovators reap their rewards? ... Does more profit create more value? ... Renewing the dignity of work ... The uses of punishment ... Our responsibility to national and global communities ... Michael: Diversity has “monopolize…
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