Benjamin Fleury-Steiner – Remembering October 7

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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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