The Tucker Carlson Show
Glenn Loury: Ousted for Opposing Middle Eastern Wars, MLK Files, & the One Thing Malcolm X Got Right
09 May 2025
For decades, conservative think tanks celebrated and supported black economist Glenn Loury. Then he expressed an unauthorized opinion on the Middle East and they dropped him in a second. (00:00) Introduction (01:13) Does Critical Thinking Still Exist in American Universities? (16:06) How Has MIT Changed? (21:29) Why Don’t We Debate Economics Anymore? (35:26) Was the Civil Rights Movement Good for Black Americans? (49:26) The One Thing Malcolm X Got Right Paid partnerships with: PreBorn: To donate please dial pound two-fifty and say keyword "BABY" or visit https://preborn.com/TUCKER Cozy Earth: https://CozyEarth.com/Tucker code TUCKER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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And I said, what has been proceeding there in Gaza is a collective punishment that I don't think is justified. And I got notified the next day the Manhattan Institute was discontinuing its relationship with me as a senior fellow.
If you'd said that about the United States, would you have gotten the same reaction? Ah, big question. Do you think you've been bamboozled?
Are we really going to go to war with Iran and turn the world economy upside down? 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 watched a couple of Malcolm X speeches, and it was like a totally different person from the one I was presented in high school. And I was like, well, why isn't this guy much more famous than he is now? One of the speeches, he goes off after white liberals, and he's like, you know, whites are bad, whites are a problem. But the real problem is white liberals. I was like, you go.
Malcolm X. It almost feels like his message has been suppressed a little bit, maybe. Thank you, Professor, for coming. So you just, you told me last night at dinner that you just, after about 50 years, taught your last course at Brown. You just left Brown. Big picture question first. You've taught for so long. How has it changed?
You've taught at, you know, the most prestigious universities in the world. How have the schools changed? How have the students changed? Do you leave more hopeful or more concerned? Big question. Yeah, that's a big question. I'll admit it.
Well, I graduated high school 60 years ago. Whoa. Where? John Marshall Harlan High School, public school in Chicago. How is it now? I don't know, to be honest with you. I know that the community that houses it has gone into decline and it's become a part of the South Side problematic, which is Chicago with the violence and so on.
It was a modest working upper, working lower middle class community. When I was at that school, it was integrated. There were 30 or 40 percent of the student body was white. I'm sure it's all black now and has been for some time. But I've lost touch with what's going on back there. But I'm just saying I've been around for a long time. Yeah, it's a long time.
So I remember as I did my undergraduate at Northwestern University, graduated in 1972, the intensity of the intellectual experience of coming to the university. Yeah. I remember encountering the German language. I remember studying mathematics and economics and philosophy and politics. And I remember books. And I remember there being a certain devotion to the life of the mind. Yes.
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