Glenn Loury

And so I assume it's that we don't share priorities. And the priorities that I assume we don't share have to do with me inviting an historian colleague of mine on the show, The Glenn Show, to talk about the post-October 7th, 2023 incursion of the IDF into Gaza, which he characterized in the same kind of language that

international human rights organizations have used as being, if not genocide, then in the same ballpark and something that one needs to be concerned about from a human rights perspective. He thinks the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice are right to take initiatives that are holding Israeli officials to account for the prosecution of that conflict.

international human rights organizations have used as being, if not genocide, then in the same ballpark and something that one needs to be concerned about from a human rights perspective. He thinks the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice are right to take initiatives that are holding Israeli officials to account for the prosecution of that conflict.

international human rights organizations have used as being, if not genocide, then in the same ballpark and something that one needs to be concerned about from a human rights perspective. He thinks the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice are right to take initiatives that are holding Israeli officials to account for the prosecution of that conflict.

And I had him on the show. Now, who is he? His name is Omer Bartov.

And I had him on the show. Now, who is he? His name is Omer Bartov.

And I had him on the show. Now, who is he? His name is Omer Bartov.

He's a student of the Holocaust, of the Nazi extermination campaign in Eastern Europe, and has written books about that. And he's been my colleague for 20 years at Brown. I've gotten to know him, and I knew that he was engaging these questions in a controversial manner, and I wanted to hear from him, so I had him on the show.

He's a student of the Holocaust, of the Nazi extermination campaign in Eastern Europe, and has written books about that. And he's been my colleague for 20 years at Brown. I've gotten to know him, and I knew that he was engaging these questions in a controversial manner, and I wanted to hear from him, so I had him on the show.

He's a student of the Holocaust, of the Nazi extermination campaign in Eastern Europe, and has written books about that. And he's been my colleague for 20 years at Brown. I've gotten to know him, and I knew that he was engaging these questions in a controversial manner, and I wanted to hear from him, so I had him on the show.

No, and there were objections coming from the staff at MI, and they asked that we not, in promoting the show, make mention of the Institute of the Manhattan Institute in connection with this particular episode. And there were other incidents. The Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates came out with a book called The Message, in which he describes writing about politics.

No, and there were objections coming from the staff at MI, and they asked that we not, in promoting the show, make mention of the Institute of the Manhattan Institute in connection with this particular episode. And there were other incidents. The Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates came out with a book called The Message, in which he describes writing about politics.

No, and there were objections coming from the staff at MI, and they asked that we not, in promoting the show, make mention of the Institute of the Manhattan Institute in connection with this particular episode. And there were other incidents. The Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates came out with a book called The Message, in which he describes writing about politics.

And there are several chapters. One reviews his first visit to Africa and talks about his encounter with the Senegalese and the complex dynamic of an African American life. thinking of himself as an African, but not really being an African in Africa.

And there are several chapters. One reviews his first visit to Africa and talks about his encounter with the Senegalese and the complex dynamic of an African American life. thinking of himself as an African, but not really being an African in Africa.

And there are several chapters. One reviews his first visit to Africa and talks about his encounter with the Senegalese and the complex dynamic of an African American life. thinking of himself as an African, but not really being an African in Africa.

Another essay describes him going to a small town in South Carolina that had banned one of his books because it's critical race theory, and finding that the people there were more complicated and interesting and malleable, that is open to discourse than he would have imagined. and sort of exposing the complexity of this moment in our cultural history of anti-racism and anti-anti-racism.

Another essay describes him going to a small town in South Carolina that had banned one of his books because it's critical race theory, and finding that the people there were more complicated and interesting and malleable, that is open to discourse than he would have imagined. and sort of exposing the complexity of this moment in our cultural history of anti-racism and anti-anti-racism.

Another essay describes him going to a small town in South Carolina that had banned one of his books because it's critical race theory, and finding that the people there were more complicated and interesting and malleable, that is open to discourse than he would have imagined. and sort of exposing the complexity of this moment in our cultural history of anti-racism and anti-anti-racism.

But the main bulk of the book is devoted in Coates' book, The Message, to recounting his experience as a visitor on the West Bank of Palestine. And he's appalled by what he sees, and he says so. And in conversation with John McWhorter, who is a regular conversation partner of mine at the podcast, I allowed us how I admired the book.