mass incarceration

This episode was recorded on October 12, 2021

Dr. Glenn Loury and I discuss the Pareto principle, the economics of inequality, PC culture, climate change, race in America, IQ and The Bell Curve, intelligence vs. wisdom, AA meetings, Christianity, and more.

Dr. Glenn Loury is an American economist, academic, and author. In 1982, he became the first African American tenured professor of economics at Harvard. Among Dr. Loury’s published works are The Anatomy of Racial Inequality and Race, Incarceration, & American Values. He was elected president of the Eastern Economics Association in 2013 and received the Bradley Prize in 2022.

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Links

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Dr. Loury’s substack:

http://glennloury.substack.com

The Glenn Show: 

https://youtube.com/channel/UCuEhthcgt1AImOzXPYsMzeQ

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: https://amazon.com/Anatomy-Racial-Inequality-Preface-Lectures/dp/0674260465/ref=asc_df_0674260465/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=519487730108&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=770218243983853108&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019578&hvtargid=pla-1454356324992&psc=1

Race, Incarceration, and American Values:

https://amazon.com/gp/product/B08BT4WHFG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2

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Chapters

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[0:00] Intro

[01:23] Dr. Loury’s Career

[04:38] The Pareto Principle

[10:51] Market Failure & Climate Change

[11:57] The G Factor (general intelligence factor)

[13:45] Why Stephen Jay Gould Is Wrong

[17:01] Neuroticism & Divorce

[26:06] Race & Incarceration in the US 

[36:16] Culture & Biology

[38:09] The 80/20 Principle

[47:20] Openness & Entrepreneurs

[49:21] Meaningful Work & Inequality

[56:35:] The Bell Curve 

[01:01:09] Political Correctness around IQ 

[01:14:58] Dr. Loury's (Shifting) Political Views

[01:21:09] Drug Addiction & Spiritual Transformation

[01:27:10] Intelligence vs. Wisdom

[01:30:16] The Glenn Show

[01:35:40] George Floyd

This episode contains strong language.

During much of this election cycle, Julius Irving of Gainesville, Fla., spent his days trying to get former felons registered to vote.

He would tell them about Florida’s Amendment Four, a ballot initiative that extended the franchise to those who had, in the past, been convicted on felony charges — it added an estimated 1.5 million people to the electorate, the nation’s largest voting expansion in four decades.

On today’s episode, Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter, spends time with Mr. Irving in Gainesville and explores the voting rights battle in Florida.

Guest: Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter for The New York Times.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

Background reading:

• Former prisoners can now go to the polls in Florida. But fines remain one obstacle. Believing anything will make a difference is another. That’s where Julius Irving comes in.

Josh Dubin is an Innocence Project Ambassador Advisor & President of Dubin Research and Consulting, Inc. He also hosts a podcast called "Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science" available on Spotify. Jason Flom is an Innocence Project Board Member, CEO of Lava Media, and host of the "Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom", available on Spotify.

It’s not your typical night at the Apollo when Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman welcome Senator Cory Booker, science evangelist Dr. Ainissa Ramirez and comedians Maeve Higgins and Phoebe Robinson to the historic theater in Harlem, NYC.