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Professor Glen Loury talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the racial unrest in America

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6917 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled 'Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

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Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

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Welcome to the Quillett podcast.

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I'm Jonathan Kay.

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In 1982, Glenn Lowry, then age 33,

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became the first black tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University.

0:45.2

Since then he's migrated to Boston University and then Brown, where he's been ever since, and during it all

0:50.9

he's proved himself a provocative and unpredictable thinker

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including on the Colette website where his recent article about the unrest in

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American cities titled Condem this violence without equiv, became quite the sensation.

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Professor Lowry is a busy person who, among other things, runs his own

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podcast on blogging Heads TV,

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but he took some time to talk to me this week

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about his article and his general response to the spirit of protest and regrettable violence since the shocking police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.

1:24.0

America unfortunately has seen so many horrible episodes of police brutality.

1:29.2

I'm wondering if you could explain in no particular order some of the factors that have made this episode such a unique flash

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point.

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