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    Firing Line
            Glenn Loury
                
                    
                        
                            Season 2023
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 649
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Brown economist Glenn Loury says affirmative action and reparations will not solve inequality and defends free speech on college campuses. Loury—who at 33 became Harvard's first Black tenured economics professor—discusses how his views have evolved.
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