Why Americans Are So Violent | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter & Jens Ludwig | The Glenn Show

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Go to https://ground.news/glennshow to spot media bias and become a smarter news consumer. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month. Pre-order Glenn's forthcoming book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetai... 0:00 How Jens got interested in American gun violence 2:45 What’s “unexpected” about the origins of gun violence? 5:29 Race and the culture of gun violence 9:30 Ground News ad 11:20 Are high rates of gun violence a cultural issue or an equilibrium? 17:09 Is urban gun violence the result of rational behavior? 24:34 The link between Kahnemanian “fast thinking” and violent conflict 36:46 Are gun violence interruptions scalable? 40:52 The role of urban design in reducing crime and violence 47:31 Jens: Gang-motivated crime may not account for as much violence as its seems 50:43 Rehabilitating “Broken Windows” 53:47 Jens’s “pathological pragmatism” Glenn Loury (Brown University, Hoover Institution, Self-Censorship), John McWhorter (Columbia, New York Times, Lexicon Valley), and Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago, Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence). Recorded June 13, 2025.