Loury

TGGP: Years back when Glenn Loury was a neoconservative (or at least fellow traveler) he wrote A Theory of Political Correctness.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010

Years back when Glenn Loury was a neoconservative (or at least fellow traveler) he wrote A Theory of Political Correctness.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010

If you want to hear something intelligent said on this subject, meanwhile, listen to Loury and McWhorter on “Negro dialect”.

Matthew Yglesias » Identity Politics for White People 2010

It needed, Loury said, to engage "problems of poor education and intermittent employment and limited full human development [in] fractured and fragile communities" -- not least, the problem of more than a million black men and women cycling in and out of an often brutal prison system.

David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010

It needed, Loury said, to engage "problems of poor education and intermittent employment and limited full human development [in] fractured and fragile communities" -- not least, the problem of more than a million black men and women cycling in and out of an often brutal prison system.

David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010

Glenn Loury, an African American professor at Brown, wrote, “It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his ‘friend’ rather than stressing the policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed but still human young black men in America out of prison.”

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Glenn Loury, an African American professor at Brown, wrote, “It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his ‘friend’ rather than stressing the policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed but still human young black men in America out of prison.”

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Glenn Loury, an African American professor at Brown, wrote, “It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his ‘friend’ rather than stressing the policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed but still human young black men in America out of prison.”

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Professor Loury then takes a philosophical look at the idea of justice to talk about whether any of this is consistent with our society's ideals of fairness.

Marian Wright Edelman: A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values 2009

In his title essay in the recent book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values, Professor Loury sounds the alarm on some of the same concerns the Children's Defense Fund has been raising when we talk about the pipeline to prison crisis.

Marian Wright Edelman: A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values 2009