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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Confessions of a Black Conservative (Robert Wright & Glenn Loury)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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0:28 Glenn’s very unvarnished memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative 10:12 Glenn’s unusual urban upbringing 19:00 Is Glenn’s sermon for black men hypocritical? 22:15 Glenn’s double life at Harvard 32:40 How it all came crashing down 44:39 Is Glenn’s book _too_ honest? 52:16 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Late Admissions). Recorded June 13, 2024.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

Overtime titles:

0:00 The Psalm that may have saved Glenn’s life 5:50 Glenn’s final crack hit 8:28 Glenn’s path from conservative to progressive and back again 21:53 The difference between Glenn and Wilt Chamberlain 23:32 Why does Glenn have such low risk aversion? 32:43 The time Glenn made Coretta Scott King cry 37:55 Explaining all without excusing all

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

0:27.4

Hi, Glenn.

0:31.2

Hi, Bob.

0:32.9

How you doing?

0:34.8

Doing okay?

0:35.8

Can I complain?

0:37.4

That's funny. That's exactly how I'm doing. Let me introduce

0:40.8

this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero newsletter. This is the non-zero podcast.

0:46.0

You're Glenn Lowry, an academic. You're an economist of Brown University, well-known public

0:51.2

intellectual. Also host of the well-known Glenn Show, which I'm proud to say begin on the Blogging Head's TV platform, which was co-founded by me and Mickey Kouse and Greg Dingell.

1:03.5

So that's my, if nothing else, I'm going to leave that behind as part of my legacy.

1:09.3

And above all, for present purposes,

1:11.9

you are author of the new book,

1:15.8

late admissions, confessions of a black conservative,

1:20.8

which is a memoir of sorts,

1:22.3

although it's unlike any other memoir,

1:24.8

for that matter, any other book I've ever read.

1:27.5

In fact, I thought one reviewer kind of understated things when he began his review by saying,

1:32.4

what's the line here?

1:34.6

It says, Glenn C. Lowry's new book late admissions is unlike any economist memoir I ever read.

1:40.6

I would go further and say it's unlike any other book I've ever read. Before I explain

1:46.1

why, I want to file one complaint. So there's this part of the book and it's an important part.

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