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Glenn Loury is a paragon of what a professor should be, a dying breed in demoralized academia. https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-rank-the-top-npc-universities

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Having a conversation with those who think differently than you is good. At least you are talking. The problem is when truth is spoken those speaking the truth are thrown under the bus.

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What’s so striking is that Loury has found a way to speak his truth boldly, while remaining open to others and their ideas and having the courage so rare now a days to change his mind. This country is so polarized, but I feel there is more discourse rising up about compassion, dialogue and openness. This gives me hope for our future.

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I LOVE Loury. A sage voice of reason among a sea of identity politics insanity. He and McWhorter tell it like it is. Contrarians, yes, but more important, critical thinkers. And he’s honest; I think that’s the major draw for me. Been listening to his podcast for years now.

I forgot about his past struggle with cocaine addiction. I’m 12 years sober myself. I just published an essay on my SS, “Sincere American Writing,” called, “Sobriety and Wokeism are Diametrically Opposed to Each Other: Why 12-step Recovery and Social Justice Warriors Collide.” Some here might be interested.

But anyway--Thank god for educated, honest intellectuals like Loury and McWhorter, especially when discussing the slippery, Orwellian concept of race in contemporary times.

Michael Mohr

‘Sincere American Writing’

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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Thank you. If “We the People” allow main stream to divide us to the point of NO communication it WILL become much easier for THEM to conquer US! Sheep or Patriot, that is the question. I may not agree with what you have to say, but I can agree that we ALL come from the Creator and as such we have “ inalienable rights”. Let’s start with what we have in common, love of family, love of community and love of Country!

“In God We Trust.”

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Hey Glenn, I sincerely appreciate your honesty, transparency and willingness to listen as well as speak out against injustice. My request is that you discus the kind of urban violence we see in Philly with about 5 shootings per day and almost no arrests. Thanks Glenn.

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Even if I end up disagreeing with you on an issue I always appreciate the fact that I was put in a position to question my assumptions.

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Excellent interview. Great questions. I appreciate the fact that the interviewer lets the interviewee talk without interruption. One question I think was missing would have been when Dr Loury said he “got religion.”A logical question would have been “could you expand on what you mean, what happened?” Since getting religion is so rare, it would be interesting to hear what Dr Loury meant.

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The world waits for your future.

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Erratum: widespread violence, etc.

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I must say how any informed American could have supported Reagan is a puzzle to this informed Australian

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And are transcripts available for the podcast.?? MUCH easier to scrutinise and skim down a text version, before committing an hour to find out its worthless after all.

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I l love to hear him. I know we disagree on stuff but he can think! He can express where disagreement is. It’s refreshing to hear him.

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Loury seems to have no causal analysis of the widespread of violence in American life. It seems to have been replaced by Loury’s analysis of the ever emergent political Loury.

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It does seem ironic that a post on a thread about Loury should be deleted.

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Killer interview. Have only heard Hamish interview twice now with the Active Voice, but the ability to go from the jovial style with Saunders and then adapt to someone like Loury, who’s a bit reserved and skeptical of everything it seems, is a testament to Hamish’s inquisitive mind. Dig this series,

would love to occasionally discover people who aren’t world famous, if only because Substack has given a voice to so many of us who are having the same conversations, only in dive bars and local haunts across the world. Bravo

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