The Glenn Show (with Glenn Loury)
February 1, 2018 Blogging Heads
Professor Glenn Loury talks with his son, Glenn Loury II, in Loury's latest podcast episode about capitalism and social democratic vision.
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An Ivy League professor on what the campus conversation on race gets wrong (interview with Glenn Loury)
September 20, 2016 Vox
Glenn Loury, professor of social sciences, discusses political correctness, the legacy of state-sanctioned racism and his disagreements with the Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
What If America Approached Crime Like Treating a Disease? (comments by Glenn Loury)
June 28, 2016 The Atlantic
Glenn Loury, professor of social science and economics, comments on the need to reform the criminal justice system in America which imprisons thousands of people without dealing with the underlying causes.
Glenn Loury named Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association
May 10, 2016 American Economic Association
Glenn C. Loury, a Watson Institute faculty fellow and the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, was recently named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association (AEA).
Poverty Preference Admissions: The New Affirmative Action? (comments by Glenn Loury)
January 14, 2016 U.S. News & World Report
Glenn Loury, professor of economics, comments on an article about affirmative action as the U.S. Supreme Court gets ready to roll back on preferential treatment during the admissions process.
Loury: The political inefficacy of saying, ‘Black lives matter’
November 10, 2015 Brown Daily Herald
Glenn Loury in the Brown Daily Herald, "In summary, I continue to believe that, while race remains important in America, the core problem here ought not to be defined as a racial justice problem. It is a social justice problem."
Glenn Loury participates in anti-poverty forum
July 15, 2015 C-SPAN2
Earlier this week, Glenn Loury, Watson Faculty Fellow and Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, participated in an anti-poverty forum to deliberate these and other challenging issues. The event, convened in Washington, DC by the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE), brought community and thought leaders together to discuss the power of local, grassroots activists in the fight against poverty.
Loury Joins Congressional Briefing
May 26, 2015 C-SPAN
Watson Faculty Fellow and Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences Glenn Loury participated in a Congressional briefing on The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, a recent report released by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
'Restoring the Family': Is It Possible? (comments by Glenn Loury)
May 22, 2015
Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury talks to about his recent panel hosted by the Manhattan Institute called, "Restoring the Family".
Glenn Loury interviews John McWhorter on Blogging Heads
May 18, 2015 BloggingHeads.tv
Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury talks to John McWhorter of Columbia University on his video blog, "The Glenn Show".
Loury to participate in Bipartisan Summit on Criminal Justice Reform
March 25, 2015 Watson Institute News
Summit will include US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Secretary of Labor and Brown alumnus Tom Perez, US Senator Cory Booker and other policy leaders and members of congress.
Panel at Brown University debates impact of Ferguson shooting on civil rights movement
March 23, 2015 Providence Journal
Four scholars, including Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences Glenn Loury, grappled with questions surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, during a two-hour debate at the Watson Institute at Brown University.
Loury addresses why Ferguson won't lead to a change in public policy.
January 5, 2015
In a forum in the Boston Review, Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury says: "...making Brown a poster child around which to organize a movement for social justice might be a profound mistake, for doing so creates a situation where the success or failure of that movement hinges on the facts of his case."
Loury speaks to David Smith at Economy Watch on US incarceration.
October 22, 2014
Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury to David Smith at Economy Watch: “Because the people most affected by the mistaken policies are not white, but are black and brown, there’s been less of a tendency to slap your forehead and say ‘my, what have we done here, let’s reconsider.'"
Loury on income distribution, racial inequality and discrimination, and Pigouvian taxation.
June 17, 2014
Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury is the featured economist in a cover story interview for the quarterly magazine of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.
Watson Goes to Washington
June 11, 2014
On June 9, Brown alumni and friends attended a series of events at the National Press Club, hosted by Brown and the Watson Institute as part of Brown's 250th anniversary celebration.
Loury’s report on incarceration rates endorsed by The New York Times.
May 27, 2014
New York Times editorial endorses main recommendation of report commissioned by NRC's Standing Committee on Law and Justice, of which Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury is a member.
A new report reveals that state spending on incarceration in the US rose 400 percent between 1980 and 2009.
May 1, 2014
According to a report by the National Research Council, the rise of incarceration in the US caused a 400 percent increase in state spending between 1980 and 2009. An article in the Washington Post examines the findings of the two-year study, which "concludes that all of its costs — for families, communities, state budgets and society — have simply not been worth the benefit in deterrence and crime reduction." Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Science and professor of economics at Brown and an expert on the economics of race and inequality, serves on the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice, which commissioned the report. Loury is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute.
Watson Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury hosts a discussion with Harold Pollack of Chicago University on inner-city poverty on his talking blog, The Glenn Show.
April 3, 2014
On the newest episode of "The Glenn Show," Professor of Economics Glenn Loury talks to Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago about Paul Krugman’s criticism of Paul Ryan’s comments on inner-city poverty.
Video: Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury Debates Race, Santa Claus, and Identity
December 18, 2013
In his regular video blog, Loury counsels that blacks must strive to not let race dominate their lives, and recalls Amartya Sen's prescription about the non-inevitability of identity.