Glenn C. Loury

Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. He is author of Race, Incarceration, and American Values.

Loury Final Response to Ferguson

  • Glenn C. Loury

Ferguson Won’t Change Anything. What Will?

Michael Brown shouldn’t be a poster child for social justice movements.

  • Glenn C. Loury
with responses from
  • Danielle Allen
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Harold Pollack
  • Melissa Nobles
  • Tracey L. Meares & Benjamin Justice
  • Gary Segura
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Susan Sturm
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Doug Henwood

Scarcity Can Help Us Rethink Social Policy…and Campaigns

Scarcity lays the foundation for thinking differently about poverty.

  • Glenn C. Loury

Gandhi and the Affordable Care Act

He didn’t believe in short-cuts.

  • Glenn C. Loury

Inequality and Solidarity

Grusky’s argument is unpersuasive and just plain wrong.

  • Glenn C. Loury

Much to Answer For

James Q. Wilson’s legacy.

  • Glenn C. Loury

California Prisons and Cornel West vs Obama

BR Co-editor Joshua Cohen chats with contributor Glenn Loury on Bloggingheads.tv

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury

Strongly Worded Dissents

A Conversation

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury

The Call of the Tribe

What role should “identity” play in our politics and in our lives?

  • Glenn C. Loury

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury

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  • Glenn C. Loury

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • bell hooks
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Cornel West
  • Anthony Appiah
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