Glenn Loury

I mean, these are statistics that people cite all the time. Black family life used to be much healthier than it is, out of what, like, births and all of that. Of course, there was crime. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro, at the turn of the 20th century, is quick to point out that there was crime.

I mean, these are statistics that people cite all the time. Black family life used to be much healthier than it is, out of what, like, births and all of that. Of course, there was crime. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro, at the turn of the 20th century, is quick to point out that there was crime.

I mean, these are statistics that people cite all the time. Black family life used to be much healthier than it is, out of what, like, births and all of that. Of course, there was crime. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro, at the turn of the 20th century, is quick to point out that there was crime.

But the violence, the gangs, the drugs, the lawlessness, the contempt for order, this was a development that we can see emerging in the post-civil rights environment. So it's a mixed bag, I think. I mean, you know, you can speculate, and people do, about the sources of this dissolution, and I think they are many.

But the violence, the gangs, the drugs, the lawlessness, the contempt for order, this was a development that we can see emerging in the post-civil rights environment. So it's a mixed bag, I think. I mean, you know, you can speculate, and people do, about the sources of this dissolution, and I think they are many.

But the violence, the gangs, the drugs, the lawlessness, the contempt for order, this was a development that we can see emerging in the post-civil rights environment. So it's a mixed bag, I think. I mean, you know, you can speculate, and people do, about the sources of this dissolution, and I think they are many.

I think they are the incentives of welfare transfer programs, which encouraged people to live in ways that were ultimately not socially productive. I think the change in the larger culture in which these liberatory sexual revolutions took gave the back of their hand to a set of conventions, expectations, and restraints that were, yes, freedom-limiting.

I think they are the incentives of welfare transfer programs, which encouraged people to live in ways that were ultimately not socially productive. I think the change in the larger culture in which these liberatory sexual revolutions took gave the back of their hand to a set of conventions, expectations, and restraints that were, yes, freedom-limiting.

I think they are the incentives of welfare transfer programs, which encouraged people to live in ways that were ultimately not socially productive. I think the change in the larger culture in which these liberatory sexual revolutions took gave the back of their hand to a set of conventions, expectations, and restraints that were, yes, freedom-limiting.

I mean, you couldn't just do anything you wanted to do and maintain the respect of your peers, but were also order-inducing. freedom-limiting but order-inducing, and provided a framework within which people could manage the difficult problem of how do we live decently? What do we do with our temptations? How do we restrain our appetites?

I mean, you couldn't just do anything you wanted to do and maintain the respect of your peers, but were also order-inducing. freedom-limiting but order-inducing, and provided a framework within which people could manage the difficult problem of how do we live decently? What do we do with our temptations? How do we restrain our appetites?

I mean, you couldn't just do anything you wanted to do and maintain the respect of your peers, but were also order-inducing. freedom-limiting but order-inducing, and provided a framework within which people could manage the difficult problem of how do we live decently? What do we do with our temptations? How do we restrain our appetites?

How do we understand and then live up to our responsibilities? And I think that's a society-wide development, not just something that happens in Black communities. But I think the politics of racial claiming, the victim psychology and mentality that ends up with reparations, as you're arguing, point, I don't think those are healthy things. These are things I've written about in my own work.

How do we understand and then live up to our responsibilities? And I think that's a society-wide development, not just something that happens in Black communities. But I think the politics of racial claiming, the victim psychology and mentality that ends up with reparations, as you're arguing, point, I don't think those are healthy things. These are things I've written about in my own work.

How do we understand and then live up to our responsibilities? And I think that's a society-wide development, not just something that happens in Black communities. But I think the politics of racial claiming, the victim psychology and mentality that ends up with reparations, as you're arguing, point, I don't think those are healthy things. These are things I've written about in my own work.

They got to pat themselves on the back about being virtuous, even if what they were doing at the end of the day wasn't helping to solve the problem.

They got to pat themselves on the back about being virtuous, even if what they were doing at the end of the day wasn't helping to solve the problem.

They got to pat themselves on the back about being virtuous, even if what they were doing at the end of the day wasn't helping to solve the problem.

Here's what I think, Tucker. I think, and I've written about this in essays and so on. I think that there are basically two dispositions that you can have in thinking about the persistence of racial inequality, what I call the bias narrative. And the bias narrative is that we're behind because they have kept us out.

Here's what I think, Tucker. I think, and I've written about this in essays and so on. I think that there are basically two dispositions that you can have in thinking about the persistence of racial inequality, what I call the bias narrative. And the bias narrative is that we're behind because they have kept us out.