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Wrongthink on Race with Glenn C. Loury
Wrongthink on Race with Glenn C. Loury
Glenn C. Loury at Brown University.
A conversation with one of our sharpest cultural critics.
By Bari Weiss
09.29.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Wrongthink on Race with Glenn C. Loury

Four decades ago, Glenn C. Loury became the first tenured black professor of economics in Harvard’s history. Ever since then, he has made waves for his willingness to buck the elite intellectual establishment; for his iconoclastic ideas about race and inequality; and for his incisive cultural criticism. 

He is a man of many apparent contradictions: he ra…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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