Don's Weekly Listen: Don with Glenn Loury and John McWhorter
Your humble correspondent's first foray into the world of podcasting
Happy Friday!
This past week, I had the utmost privilege of joining two of our nation’s most brilliant and consequential public intellectuals—Brown University economist Glenn Loury and Columbia University linguist John McWhorter—for a conversation on DEI (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) and classical music. Our discussion (disguised on my end with an electronic voice) ranged from Florence Price to blind auditions, and got down to the core isssues of fairness and artistic excellence that the orchestra world is currently trying its best to do away with.
I hope you will listen and share widely, so that the valuable ideas we discuss each week can continue to find their way into the orchestral world and the wider culture. Thank you for your continuing support of The Podium.
"What the Republicans are doing [stopping voter fraud] is utterly disgusting, in part because I see it as — talk about Othello-Iago — it is a callous pragmatism. They think, well, Black people all vote Democratic, and so we’re going to do all of this. The shamelessness and refusing to admit that this voter fraud that they’re calling attention to basically doesn’t exist — it’s disgusting. It needs to be fought certainly. " – John McWhorter
https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2021/11/2/22728801/vox-conversations-john-mcwhorter-woke-racism