Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
Ferguson, the morning after … Michael Brown, Claudette Colvin, and the "perfect victim" … Glenn: Collective and individual responsibility can coexist … John: Blacks are Kantian moral actors, just like...
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Disturbing polarization in the wake of Ferguson … Glenn: Imputing racial motives is a slippery slope … John on the trouble with "disowning your own" … Al Sharpton and the murder of two NYC cops … Why...
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Jeff's new book, Seven Bad Ideas … Is "the invisible hand" just one big guessing game? … Economists who didn't see the financial crisis coming … Economics, the dismal "science" … Does executive...
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Why fighting crime sometimes creates more crime … The psychology behind obeying or disobeying the law … "Dual frustration" among African-American women … Crime is way down. Why is policing still so...
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What's inhibiting productivity growth? … Are we running out of innovation? … Gender and work in the 20th century economy … Immigration's effect on productivity … Is the college premium more about...
View ArticleGlenn Loury & Robert Cherry
What's ailing black men in America? … Robert: The "discipline gap" is not just about racism … A vicious cycle of "angry young men" … The evolution of Robert's beliefs … Robert's remedy: Stable work and...
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Michael Eric Dyson vs. Cornel West … Is West wasting his intellectual gifts? … Why Glenn has some sympathy with West … Did Al Sharpton deserve to be at the Selma memorial? … Delving deeper into the...
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Marking fifty years since the Moynihan report … Will Baltimore change things in a way that Ferguson didn't? … Debating the wisdom of focusing on police abuse … Should we care what goes on inside the...
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John defends the old New Republic … Michael Eric Dyson's ad hominem problem … The changing role of the public intellectual … Glenn challenges John on ending the drug war … The changing cultural meaning...
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Has the left run out of ideas on race and inequality? … Chronic poverty's baleful effect on morale … Educational opportunities that the poor never see … Do obsessive parents create inequality? …...
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Police, criminals, and the search for moral justice … What explains Baltimore's recent spike in violent crime? … What explains NYC's sharp reduction in violent crime? … Peter: Al Sharpton has been good...
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Heather: Black lives matter immensely to the NYPD … Weighing the costs of quality-of-life policing … Does the media overplay incidents of police abuse? … Why can't cops treat citizens with more...
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Beyond the bumper-sticker slogans on Charleston … Why was this the breaking point for the Confederate flag? … John meets Al Sharpton: "He's nice!" … Obama's remarkable eulogy for Rev. Pinckney … The...
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Harold: The Obamacare Supreme Court case was trolling … Can both sides come together to improve the ACA? … Did the Court move too hastily on same-sex marriage? … Weighing the grievances of gay marriage...
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John: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the "priest of a religion" … Glenn: Charles Blow is embarrassing himself at the NYT … The failures of racial liberalism … Stereotypes, testing, and "authentic" blackness … A...
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The power of the black church in American history … Black life between Reconstruction and the end of Jim Crow … Contemporary lessons from the black freedom struggle … Walter: Churches play a unique and...
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What economists know about the minimum wage … Is Paul Krugman dead wrong about the minimum wage? … Measuring the disemployment effect … David's critique of a famous pro–minimum wage study … Do workers...
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Jill's book, Ghettoside … The logic of inner-city violence … Why petty disputes lead to high murder rates … Diverging homicide rates among blacks and Latinos … What makes homicide detectives different...
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A second look at the Coates/Baldwin comparisons … Viral video critiques Black Lives Matter … Comparing the Michael Brown and Sandra Bland cases … Is "all lives matter" a better message? … Harold...
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Why Black Lives Matter needs a "second wing" … John: Focusing solely on police violence is a mistake … Glenn: Don't make race central to police accountability … The allure of being the "noble victim" …...
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