The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley | The Glenn Show

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0:00 Intro
1:10 Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler
5:27 Making the case for Sowell’s significance
16:55 The task of the popularizer
23:55 Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important
31:15 The norm of inter-group disparity
40:47 What happened to Glenn’s generation of heterodox Black intellectuals?
50:12 Why it’s hard to be a conservative in academia
59:54 Where is the left-wing critique of progressive racial politics?

Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University), John McWhorter (Columbia University, Lexicon Valley, The Atlantic), and Jason Riley (The Wall Street Journal, The Manhattan Institute, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell). Recorded July 16, 2021.

Intro by Kevin Zych

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