Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Social media Miscellaneous Other Glenn Cartman Loury, (born September 3, 1948) is an American economist, academic, and author.

[5] Loury has somewhat re-aligned with views of the American right, with The New York Times describing his political orientation in 2020 as "conservative-leaning.

When he wasn't working he took classes at Southeast Junior College, where he won a scholarship to study at Northwestern University.

He then received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1976, writing his dissertation, "Essays in the Theory of the Distribution of Income", under the supervision of Nobel laureate Robert M.

[14] While at Kennedy school he would befriend William Bennett and Bill Kristol[3] (He later said in an interview that his economics appointment was a mistake because he "wasn’t yet fully established as a scientist".

[16] Loury was arrested for drug possession in December 1987, six months after his assault and battery charges on Pamela Foster.

[17] After a subsequent period of seclusion and self-reflection, Loury reemerged as a born-again Christian and described himself as a "black progressive.

[citation needed] Loury hosts The Glenn Show with John McWhorter, often regarding questions of race and education.

"[37] In June 2020, Loury published a rebuttal to a letter that Brown University president Christina Paxson sent to students and alumni in response to the murder of George Floyd by a policeman.

Loury questioned the purpose of Paxson's letter, saying it either "affirmed platitudes to which we can all subscribe, or, more menacingly, it asserted controversial and arguable positions as though they were axiomatic certainties.

The costs are in terms of making it more difficult to equalize the economic circumstances of some Americans who are at the bottom of the heap, because they now have more competition for their labor, as a result of immigration.

He received the Bradley Prize in 2022, and was named the John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow from the American Academy of Political & Social Science for that same year.