Benjamin Fleury-Steiner – Remembering October 7
Episode description
Buy Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
2:29 Have we already forgotten the horror of October 7?
9:22 Ben: We can’t ignore the loss of innocent life in Gaza
13:58 “From the river to the sea” and “all lives matter”
22:00 Celebrating the deaths of Israelis
26:31 Drawing the line at BDS
33:05 Glenn: If you want free speech, prepare to be uncomfortable
37:44 Columbia University administrators put on leave after allegedly antisemitic text messages
41:41 How Glenn discovered Benjamin’s work
47:40 The social meaning of race
51:01 The invitation to empathy in Late Admissions
59:02 Benjamin’s work with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Recorded July 10, 2024
Links and Readings
Benjamin’s book, Juror’s Stories of Death: How America’s Death Penalty Invests in Inequality
Benjamin’s book, Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
Benjamin’s book, Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans
Glenn’s conversation with Omer Bartov
Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Glenn’s book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Erving Goffman’s book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Erving Goffman’s book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Robert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Orlando Patterson’s book, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Glenn’s conversation with his son, Glenn Loury II
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Student
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