First Things RSS Feed - Glenn C. Loury https://www.firstthings.com/author/glenn-c-loury en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:11 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/glenn-c-loury 60 The Case For Black Patriotism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/01/the-case-for-black-patriotism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/01/the-case-for-black-patriotism Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500 It seems only a few years ago that I was calling myself “a man of the left.” Well, like the Jewish ­intellectuals who became “neoconservatives” in the 1960s and 1970s, I am a liberal who’s been “mugged by reality.” What has happened to the public discourse about race in this country in the course of the past decade has radicalized me. It is time to challenge the Zeitgeist.

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]]> Why We Didn’t Overcome https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/08/why-we-didnt-overcome https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/08/why-we-didnt-overcome Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 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

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]]> Race & Inequality: An Exchange https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/05/race-inequality-an-exchange https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/05/race-inequality-an-exchange Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400

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]]> The New Liberal Racism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/01/the-new-liberal-racism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/01/the-new-liberal-racism Fri, 01 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0500 Two Nations:
Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal
by Andrew Hacker
Scribner’s, 272 pages, $24.95

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]]> Two Paths to Black Power https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/10/two-paths-to-black-power https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/10/two-paths-to-black-power Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:00:00 -0400 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 leadership, as well as from other quarters. The racial aspect of the appointment—that Thomas has replaced on the Court the only other black ever to serve there—is of crucial importance to understanding the vehemence of some of the opposition. Indeed, the entire affair illustrates how powerfully two separate levels of deliberation about racial matters—that of the American polity as a whole and that of blacks by and among themselves—can interact with each other, on both sides of the political divide. The attack on Thomas from the white liberal community would have been crippled from the start without a sufficient measure of black authorization. And his nomination would surely have been defeated absent massive support for him among southern blacks, which authorized certain key votes cast on his behalf by Democratic Senators.

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]]> Black Dignity and the Common Good https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/06/black-dignity-and-the-common-good https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/06/black-dignity-and-the-common-good Fri, 01 Jun 1990 00:00:00 -0400 (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.)

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