Hello, everybody. This is Glenn Lowry, the Glyn Show. This week's post that the Glyn Show

is a cross-posting of a conversation that I had with Hamish Mackenzie. Hamish is a co-founder

of the Substack Enterprise and has recently launched his own podcast where he invited

music as a guest and we engaged in conversation. So here we are, please do enjoy it. It's lively

and interesting as is Hamish Mackenzie and interesting fellow. It's the Substack family

here at the Glyn Show this week. Thank you.

Well, Glenn Lowry, thank you very much for agreeing to do this interview with me. We're

sitting in a pretty kicker studio here in the Manhattan Institute in New York, the

clues in the name. I wanted to start by asking you, you're a very esteemed academic. You could

be sitting in the ivory tower and isolating yourself there. But as well as doing that, you

post video podcasts to the internet conversations with a wide variety of people. Why do you

do that? Well, it's a lot of fun. It's a lot more interesting than the dull, dry, specialized

arcane, parsing, dotting eyes and crossing teases, economic theorist, although I have great

respect for my colleagues who do that kind of work. I mean, my 70s. I don't have anything

to prove. If I got something to say, I get to say it. I get to say it and people react

and that's gratifying. At this stage in my career, I'm kind of letting my hair down a

little bit and sitting back and taking it all in and letting my voice be heard. It's

a lot of fun. What does this give you that's academia can't give you? Thousands of followers.

I can make an income by doing what I love, which I was doing, of course, when I'm teaching

and when I'm writing academic work, but I somehow feel that the sky is the limit here.

I can reach a broader range of people. I can have influence beyond the fraternity, the

academic fraternity, things that I really care about. I talk a lot about race and racial

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