Coates: Neoliberal or prophet of doom? | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show]

00:17 Cornel West’s misguided “neoliberal” critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates
05:48 Coates as a prophet of doom
14:47 Glenn accuses Coates of racial essentialism
25:17 The Bonfire of the Black Public Mental Vanities
34:36 Why John has stopped writing about race and politics
42:18 How do blacks match into Trump’s “America First”?

Glenn Loury (Brown College) and Harold Pollack (College of Chicago, The Century Basis)

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Recorded on December 20, 2017

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