Freddie Sayers meets Glenn Loury. Read the article: https://unherd.com/2022/02/americas-racial-torment-must-end/ Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/glenn-loury-reject-race-politics-and-embrace-humanity To get a handle on some of the race related news stories coming out of America, from Biden’s Supreme Court nomination to Joe Rogan’s cancellation, Freddie Sayers spoke to Glenn Loury, an economist and cultural critic. Loury was the first African American tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University and has set himself apart from his contemporaries by taking a sceptical view of the racialised rhetoric of American academia. In this wide-ranging conversation he discusses model minorities, Black Lives Matter and Whoopi Goldberg's alleged anti-semitism. Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv // TIMECODES // 00:00 - 01:29 - Introduction 01:29 - 08:33 - President Biden has announced he wants a black woman Supreme Court nominee. How should we think about this? 08:33 - 13:37 - Has affirmative action gone too far? 13:37 - 18:36 - Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust controversy 18:36 - 23:01 - Are white liberals and progressives making the race conversation more heated? 23:01 - 25:35 - Is Glenn’s side of the argument winning? 25:35 - 27:58 - Why is there so little sympathy for Asians among progressive activists? 27:58 - 34:34 - Attempts to cancel Joe Rogan from Spotify will fail 34:34 - 36:04 - Concluding thoughts #SupremeCourt #GlennLoury #Race