The Glenn Show · Glenn Loury
Ben Peterson – Governing the Social Commons
April 6, 2026·1 hr 9 min·5 clips
Loury insists economists must treat humans as spiritual agents, not automata, to understand social problems.
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A patient argument about how order is made when the social commons thins.
Glenn Lowry and Ben Peterson spend this conversation on a hard question: what happens when law carries more of the load than it should. Peterson argues that the United States has come to lean too heavily on policing, courts, and prisons while families, churches, neighborhoods,…
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