Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

This week's special episode features a discussion about Glenn Laurie's essay, Clarence Thomas and Me, which appears in our

winter issue and examines the justice's legacy and principles alongside Glenn's own experience as a

black conservative public intellectual.

Glenn Lari, a Manhattan Institute, Paulson Fellow, and the Merton P. Stoltz professor

of economics at Brown University, is joined by Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence

and Director of the James Madison Program in American ideals and institutions at Princeton University,

and Randall Kennedy, the Michael Klein Professor of Law at Harvard. Their conversation is moderated by

Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute.

You can find Glenn Laurie's essay about Justice Thomas in our brand new winter issue,

which is now out online and in print. We hope you enjoy.

Good evening. My name's Ilya Shapiro. I'm a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies here at the Manhattan Institute. And boy, are you in for a treat tonight. I look forward to watching this panel as much as all of you, I'm sure.

So let's get to it.

I will quickly introduce the panelists and the author of the article in City Journal,

captivating article by Glenn Lowry called Clarence Thomas and me.

So Glenn Lowry, the author, is the Merton P. Stoltz, professor of economics at

Brown University and a Paulson fellow here at M.I. He has earned distinctions like being a distinguished

fellow of the American Economics Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society,

and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He really does it all.

And additionally, he's the host of the popular podcast, The Glenn Show.

After Glenn will be Randall Kennedy, who's the Michael R. Klein professor at Harvard Law School.

A legal scholar, former clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, received the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy

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