#42 — Racism and Violence in America

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sam Harris talks to economist Glenn C. Loury about racism, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and related topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:46.7	Today I'll be speaking with Glenn Lowry.
0:49.2	Glenn is the Merton P. Stolz professor of social sciences and professor of economics at Brown
0:54.1	University.
0:55.4	He's taught previously at Boston and Harvard and Northwestern and the University of Michigan.
1:02.3	He holds a BA in mathematics from Northwestern and a PhD in economics from MIT.
1:08.3	He's a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim fellowship
1:13.8	recipient.
1:15.0	He has published widely and has written several books that I will link to on my blog.
1:22.0	I discovered Glenn through his blogging his TV podcast, where he's been having some extraordinarily
1:28.2	candid and clarifying conversations about race and racism with the linguist John McWater
1:34.8	from Columbia.
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