The Bloody Price of Ethno-Nationalism | Glenny Loury, Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

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0:00 The origins of Self-Censorship
4:11 Black and conservative in Reagan’s America
8:30 The social science hall of fame
12:45 Ground News ad
14:42 Jews, assimilation, and the quantitative revolution
19:53 Human universalism vs. ethno-national particularity
23:39 Historicizing “the Jew”
25:44 Danny: Larry Summers can’t see outside his own neoliberal paradigm
29:47 Are we entering a period of, as Marx wrote, “mutual ruin”?
32:43 Is capitalism leading us toward nuclear war?
39:15 What the Manhattan Institute incident taught Glenn about his own book
44:59 Glenn: “I’m rethinking everything”
48:37 Is the right reverting to a pre-New Deal political paradigm?
53:34 Is Israel a reversion to an Early Modern model of nation-building?
1:00:04 American Jews’s role in Israel’s creation and perpetuation
1:05:01 Why Glenn previously censored himself on Gaza
1:11:27 Glenn: So far, I’m disappointed in Trump

Glenn Loury (Brown University, Hoover Institution, Self-Censorship), Daniel Bessner (University of Washington, American Prestige, Democracy in Exile), and Derek Davison (American Prestige, Foreign Exchanges). Recorded August 6, 2025.