Roland Fryer
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Oct 3, 2026
John McWhorterHOST
Nevertheless, that's the source of my stressing the culture in that case.
Glenn LouryHOST
I might just mention we had last week on the show Roland Fryer.
Glenn LouryHOST
I'm sorry you missed his job.
Glenn LouryHOST
Oh, yeah.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
I hope so.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
Uh, after George Floyd, they said that cops were murdering Black men in the street, and then poor Roland Fryer, the Harvard econ- Black Harvard economist said, "Actually, the Washington Post was right.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
There was only 11 Black men killed who were unarmed last year, and there were this, more white men that were killed unarmed," even though Um, they're a majority of the population, but Black men came into contact with police more than white men did.
Victor Davis HansonGUEST
And he, he- his next thing he knew, Claudian- Claudine Gay at Harvard had him isolated, and he was persona non grata, and they tried to ruin his career for five years just for saying the truth.
Sam RichardsHOST
There are all these very different situations.
Sam RichardsHOST
And so, and Roland Fryer, I don't remember the Roland Fryer case, but I do remember, I think I remember that he was pretty not, also not, he was in over his head, if I remember that.
Sam RichardsHOST
Uh, I think, uh, man, it's hard.
Sam RichardsHOST
It's hard, man.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In fact, when Roland Fryer of Harvard, noted professor, found no racial bias in police shootings, his colleagues here told him not to publish it.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hired eight fresh research assistants, replicated it, got the same answer, published it anyway, and for his troubles, he lived under police protection for over a month, buying diapers for his seven-day-old daughter with an armed guard.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, Harvard largely stood silent.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
but it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fact, when Roland Fryer of Harvard, noted professor, found no racial bias in police shootings, his colleagues here told him not to publish it.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hired eight fresh research assistants, replicated it, got the same answer, published it anyway, and for his troubles, he lived under police protection for over a month, buying diapers for his seven-day-old daughter with an armed guard, while Harvard largely stood silent.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's organic.
Steven CrowderHOST
Some years, 15 to 1. but it's organic.
Steven CrowderHOST
Fact, when Roland Fryer of Harvard, noted professor, found no racial bias in police shootings, his colleagues here told him not to publish it.
Steven CrowderHOST
He hired eight fresh research assistants, replicated it, got the same answer, published it anyway, and for his troubles, he lived under police protection for over a month, buying diapers for his seven-day-old daughter with an armed guard, while Harvard largely stood silent.
Steven CrowderHOST
But it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In fact, when Roland Fryer of Harvard, noted professor, found no racial bias in police shootings, his colleagues here told him not to publish it.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hired eight fresh research assistants, replicated it, got the same answer, published it anyway, and for his troubles, he lived under police protection for over a month, buying diapers for his seven-day-old daughter with an armed guard, while Harvard largely stood silent.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Speaking of keynotes, published Johnson & Chang's study of eighteen hundred and seventy-five commencement speakers at fifty-two schools, Harvard included, showed that liberal speakers outnumbered conservatives for thirty-six years straight, averaging a ratio of more than ten to three, some years fifteen to one, but it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fact, when Roland Fryer of Harvard, noted professor, found no racial bias in police shootings, his colleagues here told him not to publish it.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hired eight fresh research assistants, replicated it, got the same answer, published it anyway, and for his troubles, he lived under police protection for over a month, buying diapers for his seven-day-old daughter with an armed guard, while Harvard largely stood silent, but it's organic.
Steven CrowderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, Professor Kennedy will grant most of this, to be fair.
John PapolaHOST
And those of us with a more open mind can read this for what it really is, which is a catalog of the failure of big government progressivism in education.
John PapolaHOST
In fact, one of the counterexamples, one of the many, though not many enough counterexamples, Two, her story comes from Roland Fryer, who is a black academic at Harvard who has been repeatedly
Ezekiel EmanuelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
attacked
John PapolaHOST
by the sort of woke anti-racist crowd for daring to not be a lefty.
John PapolaHOST
Even if they are, it doesn't matter.
John PapolaHOST
You have an obligation to the rest of the class.
John PapolaHOST
Decades later, Will Dobby and I, Roland Fryer writing this, studied charter schools serving similar children, but producing different results.
John PapolaHOST
Five practices distinguished the most effective.
Glenn LouryHOST
Robert Patton Spruill, who's co-executive producer.
Glenn LouryHOST
And our guest this hour, these two hours, is Roland Fryer.
Glenn LouryHOST
Fabled economist, old friend, former student, I'm proud to be able to say.
Glenn LouryHOST
uh and uh gonna be talking about this and that including uh the new prize that uh was just announced in the wall street journal for intellectual courage and independence to care uh trust uh prize uh that's uh uh being supported by the Carrick Trust, which Bill Ackman funds and is chairman of.
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