Glenn Loury
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197 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. I don't know. I'm not a historian, but I see what you say. And I do think there are aspects of his message that are extremely threatening to established order. He was a Muslim. He was succeeded in his leadership of that movement, ultimately, by Louis Farrakhan, who was a notorious anti-Semite, quote-unquote. Yes. So, there's that.
But Malcolm X was uncompromising about, well, you remember his comment after the Kennedy assassination, chickens come home to roost and whatnot. What do you think he meant by that?
I think he meant U.S. entailment in global affairs has created enemies. The U.S. has undertaken various operations that are in effect responsible for the blowback that we're seeing. That's what I think he meant.
I'm just trying to understand the world. Are we ever going to see all the documents related to that? No, of course not.
I do, and it's deeply disquieting to me, actually, because it means that the reality that I take for granted is orchestrated or manufactured, and there are forces, I would have to presume dark forces, at work that I don't fully understand. And then if this is not what it appears to be, what else that I take for granted is a charade or a fantasy.
I don't really know the answer to that question. I'm going to make a personal reference. I married my wife, LaJuan, whom you've met.
And I would say that that relationship has been a wake-up call for me in that she brings a perspective that's very different from my conventional... I read the New York Times, and I pretty much believe when I'm reading. I read the Washington Post. I read the Wall Street Journal. I read the Chronicles of Higher Education. I, you know... And, you know, that's what they're saying.
And, you know, I take it seriously. And I watch television. I watch the Sunday shows. And she's like, man, that is all manufactured consent. She's going to pull out Noam Chomsky on me. So I say all that to say, while I am not necessarily going to parrot her perspective on things, they have caused me, encountering her perspective has caused me to revisit some of my own assumptions.
Yeah, I think so. Sure.
Because it turns out that, and this actually relates to the book that I have coming out from Polity Books called Self-Censorship in a couple of months. It makes me aware of the fact that the discussion of controversial and sensitive matters that is sanitized and acceptable in the mainstream venues is only the tip of the iceberg of legitimate discussion and debate.
And that there, if you don't do your quote unquote, your own research, if you don't exert an effort, um, if, if you don't look around, if you don't listen to, uh, alternative voices, uh, if you don't access independent media, which we're our wash, a wash in now, but which is relatively new last quarter century or so, um, you're being led around by the nose.
You're, you're, you're being, uh, how did Malcolm X, you've been bamboozled. You're being hoodwinked. You're, you're, uh, I'm not exercising your full critical capacities. You have to exert the effort to look beyond what's right in front of your nose.
A little bit. Yeah.
Well, for example, I pretty much take what my government says to be, until proven otherwise, true and reliable. And I have reason now to be more skeptical about that.
Well, man, I mean, we've been at war since forever. Yes. Do we really need to be at war since forever? There were no weapons of mass destruction. Were there?
In Iraq. Are we really going to go to war with Iran and turn the world economy upside down? Is that what we're about to do? These are important questions. Must we risk nuclear war with a nuclear-armed Russia over the conflict in Ukraine as an imperative to prevent the reemergence of a dominant force coming from the East to occupy civilization? I'm being told, or... Let me get more prosaic.
Is it really Jim Crow 2.0 if they want to ask for a driver's license before you cast a ballot in Georgia? I mean, if I don't ask myself some of those questions, I'll be being led around by the nose over the cliff.
Yeah. I got used to being the contrarian and thinking of myself as the guy who thought outside the box and who was not bound by convention. But I came to realize though that I wasn't quite as independent a thinker as I imagined myself to be and that there were traps, you know. So, yeah.
So, I'm going to talk about my relationship with the Manhattan Institute.
The Manhattan Institute is a think tank based in New York City, published in a magazine called City Journal, puts out reports and houses scholars who are investigating different aspects of social policy, largely urban policy. related issues. And they've been around for a while.
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