Glenn Loury

Thomas Sowell grew up in the Jim Crow South in a house without electricity or hot water, and ends up, you know, Harvard, U Chicago, uh, teaching at Cornell, and going on to have this very impressive academic career and trade, trade publication career.

Glenn Loury grows up on the South Side of Chicago, working class, working, um, in a, in a factory with a c- with a kid, uh, as a very young man, going com- you know, taking night classes, and ends up at MIT and, and, and Harvard Kennedy School.

Uh, and your...

And you.

Yeah, I mean, well, [clears throat] that's a, that's a lot to chew on.

Yeah.

First, um, you know, thank you for even mentioning me in the same paragraph as Thomas Sowell and Glenn Loury.

Both of them, uh, I know Glenn, I know very well, and, um, they're, they're both brilliant, so that's, that's an honor.

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