The first time I spoke with Glenn Loury, my initial impression was “Does this guy always speak in full paragraphs?”
Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down affirmative action, I’d emailed the veteran black economist for research I was doing on the conservative movement’s complicated relationship with racial issues, and he’d foolishly accepted. Now, I was listening to the Brown University professor absolutely spike Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for her dissent in SFFA v. Harvard. “Biden picked a lesser black woman,” Loury insisted. “She’s a pedestrian and moderately-qualified judge who happened to be the right demographic. [Clarence] Thomas is citing Montesquieu and the Founders, and KBJ is citing Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is the Constitution of the United States of America. It’s sophomoric.”
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