Glenn Loury: Elon Musk’s apartheid politics

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks to eminent economist and social scientist Professor Glenn Loury about a troubling new shift in American discourse: the rise of Right-wing identity politics. Traditionally a critic of the woke Left, Loury turns his sights on the world’s wealthiest man, arguing that Elon Musk is making a "category mistake" by importing South African racial anxieties into the American context. By embracing white solidarity and racial essentialism, Loury argues, the Right is not defeating identity politics, but is instead adopting a politically destructive mirror image of the very ideology they claim to oppose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Glenn Loury: Elon Musk’s apartheid politics is an episode from Lockdown TV with Freddie Sayers by Sebastian Giraud.

This episode is 26:31 long.

This episode was published on Jan 30, 2026.

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