Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.

Born on the south side of Chicago, Glen Cartman Lowry became a tender professor of economics

at Harvard at the age of 33.

Four decades later, Dr. Lowry holds a chair in social sciences and economics at Brown.

Dr. Lowry also hosts a weekly podcast on the ricochet network, The Glen Show.

Professor Lowry, thank you.

My pleasure.

On The Glen Show, you call yourself a woke buster.

And now, what I want to know is what a chaired, this is really quite an august thing.

You're a chaired professor at one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious universities.

What do you do on calling yourself a woke buster?

Well, with the other side, so to speak, that is, the woke side, it weren't so crazy.

I could go on, you know, with my equations and my lectures and mine my own business.

I'm trying to stay in touch with reality and maybe save the country.

Maybe save the country, or I'm not a stand-pissed.

All right, you're a man who has traveled great distances.

One of these journeys for one of a better term is socioeconomic.

You grow up in a rough neighborhood in Chicago.

You become a father while you're still in your teens.

You take a job as a clerk in a printing plant.

And that's where you start.

Here's where you go.

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