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0:51 Revisiting the “Starbucks and swimming pool” problem
12:27 A new soft bigotry of low expectations?
22:10 Glenn: Some so-called microaggressions are in fact justified
30:55 John: When I’m microagressed against, I feel superior
44:33 The Nation magazine’s racially controversial poem
55:30 John calls Jordan Peterson “kind of sinister”
62:10 The experience of being the only black person at a conference

Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) and John McWhorter (Columbia University, Lexicon Valley) Recorded August 10, 2018
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0:24 John becomes a contributing writer at The Atlantic
5:09 Assessing Adolph Reed’s recent essay, “The Trouble with Uplift”
14:38 What has Black Lives Matter accomplished?
20:03 John: I was wrong about Obama and race
34:46 Glenn: Obama should’ve delivered a social conservative message to the black community
45:08 Praising Meghan Daum’s essay on the Intellectual Dark Web

Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) and John McWhorter (Columbia University, Lexicon Valley, The Atlantic)

Recorded September 18, 2018
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