“Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.” ProblemRacismOkayDiscriminationRelax Author:Glenn Loury
“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.” ThinkingImportantBookMomentsProblemWinningPrayerPolicyDrugAddictionLawyerMedicalLeaving Me Author:Glenn Loury
“We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.” PeopleRealProblemBuildingProveSolutionsPrisonAddictionAlcoholDrunkenness Author:Glenn Loury