About Glenn Loury
Glenn Loury is a distinguished economist at Brown University and author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Race, Incarceration, and American Values, and the memoir Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, among other groundbreaking works of economics and social criticism. Through this newsletter, he offers weekly podcast episodes, exclusive writing and commentary, reader Q&As, and video features.
In my long career as a theoretical economist at institutions like Harvard, Boston University, and Brown, I’ve engaged with America’s most pressing concerns about race and inequality in ways that reach out beyond the confines of the academy.
In the 1980s and 1990s, that meant giving public lectures and writing for premiere print publications like The New Republic, The Public Interest, Commentary, and The Atlantic.
In the 2000s, I began podcasting and videocasting with The Glenn Show on the Bloggingheads. tv platform, where I struck up a popular ongoing dialogue with the linguist and social critic John McWhorter.