Glenn Loury

I don't see how you can say that women were not empowered. If, you know, we go to, who is it? Betty Friedan or Simone de Beauvoir or somebody like that. And this set of issues that they were talking about. And you look at where ideas are about equality for women now and the appropriate role of women in society. political and social life.

I think you can say, I don't know if you want to say they were liberated because they are confronted with challenges in life that are intrinsic to the, it seems to me, to the way in which we reproduce and the way in which the species has evolved and Some of that stuff is hardwired and it's going to always be a part of the issue.

I think you can say, I don't know if you want to say they were liberated because they are confronted with challenges in life that are intrinsic to the, it seems to me, to the way in which we reproduce and the way in which the species has evolved and Some of that stuff is hardwired and it's going to always be a part of the issue.

I think you can say, I don't know if you want to say they were liberated because they are confronted with challenges in life that are intrinsic to the, it seems to me, to the way in which we reproduce and the way in which the species has evolved and Some of that stuff is hardwired and it's going to always be a part of the issue.

But I think the presumptions about the entitlement of women to an opportunity to fully develop their human potential is a move forward. Were Blacks liberated? Well, I just read an interesting book by Jason Riley, the conservative African-American Wall Street Journal editorialist. He calls it the myth of affirmative action, and he basically argues in the spirit of the great Thomas Sowell that—

But I think the presumptions about the entitlement of women to an opportunity to fully develop their human potential is a move forward. Were Blacks liberated? Well, I just read an interesting book by Jason Riley, the conservative African-American Wall Street Journal editorialist. He calls it the myth of affirmative action, and he basically argues in the spirit of the great Thomas Sowell that—

But I think the presumptions about the entitlement of women to an opportunity to fully develop their human potential is a move forward. Were Blacks liberated? Well, I just read an interesting book by Jason Riley, the conservative African-American Wall Street Journal editorialist. He calls it the myth of affirmative action, and he basically argues in the spirit of the great Thomas Sowell that—

You know, Blacks were really doing pretty well between 1940 and 1960. And when you look at the acceleration of wages and the breakdown of barriers of segregation and whatnot, that that was a golden age for African-American advancement and that advancement after 1960 happened.

You know, Blacks were really doing pretty well between 1940 and 1960. And when you look at the acceleration of wages and the breakdown of barriers of segregation and whatnot, that that was a golden age for African-American advancement and that advancement after 1960 happened.

You know, Blacks were really doing pretty well between 1940 and 1960. And when you look at the acceleration of wages and the breakdown of barriers of segregation and whatnot, that that was a golden age for African-American advancement and that advancement after 1960 happened.

was less rapid and that the big, the ballyhoo about liberation of African-Americans associated with Black power and the civil rights movement and the advent of affirmative action is overstated. That there were downsides, significant downsides to those developments, both in terms of abetting economic empowerment for African-Americans, but also in terms of the

was less rapid and that the big, the ballyhoo about liberation of African-Americans associated with Black power and the civil rights movement and the advent of affirmative action is overstated. That there were downsides, significant downsides to those developments, both in terms of abetting economic empowerment for African-Americans, but also in terms of the

was less rapid and that the big, the ballyhoo about liberation of African-Americans associated with Black power and the civil rights movement and the advent of affirmative action is overstated. That there were downsides, significant downsides to those developments, both in terms of abetting economic empowerment for African-Americans, but also in terms of the

credibility of the political claims that blacks were making on the rest of the society, and things became more partisan and divisive. And this is Riley's argument, and I have some sympathy for it.

credibility of the political claims that blacks were making on the rest of the society, and things became more partisan and divisive. And this is Riley's argument, and I have some sympathy for it.

credibility of the political claims that blacks were making on the rest of the society, and things became more partisan and divisive. And this is Riley's argument, and I have some sympathy for it.

Well, you know, if you were to pick up a typical work wanted ad page in 1960 in a major American city, you would see explicit kind of no blacks need apply type language. If you were to look at controlling for the skills that people had, the anticipated earnings of a worker, you would see that their being African American was a negative and it was a non-trivial negative in 1960.

Well, you know, if you were to pick up a typical work wanted ad page in 1960 in a major American city, you would see explicit kind of no blacks need apply type language. If you were to look at controlling for the skills that people had, the anticipated earnings of a worker, you would see that their being African American was a negative and it was a non-trivial negative in 1960.

Well, you know, if you were to pick up a typical work wanted ad page in 1960 in a major American city, you would see explicit kind of no blacks need apply type language. If you were to look at controlling for the skills that people had, the anticipated earnings of a worker, you would see that their being African American was a negative and it was a non-trivial negative in 1960.

If you were to look at the way that housing market operated or at the allocation of public educational resources, you would see significant discriminatory barriers that impeded African-American development of their skills and participation in the society. And all of that has changed. So that's, I think, for the good without any question.