Glenn C. Loury

Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama By James T. Patterson Basic Books, 228 pages, $26.95 The memo declares, “The United States is approaching a new crisis in race relations.” “A national effort is . . . . Continue Reading »

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal by Andrew Hacker Scribner’s, 272 pages, $24.95 The shockingly violent reaction to the Rodney King verdict, destined to be remembered as the great Los Angeles Riot of 1992, has provoked more intense discussion among the American . . . . Continue Reading »

The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate about public philosophy ongoing among black Americans. The fact is that Thomas, a black of humble origins and an avowed conservative, met with vehement opposition from much of the black . . . . Continue Reading »

(Editors’ Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily . . . . Continue Reading »