1. An addendum to the @ezraklein & @SamHarrisOrg debate about Charles Murray. Harris uses Glenn Loury as a human shield, which is ironic given Loury's history with Murray.
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3. As it happens, Glenn Loury & Charles Murray have an interesting and salient history. They were colleagues together at American Enterprise Institute in early 1990s.
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4. But after publication of Bell Curve & D'Souza's terrible "End of Racism" (also sponsored by AEI), Loury (and another black conservative, Robert Woodson) decided they could no longer work at AEI.
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5. Here is Loury's account of Bell Curve & larger hostility of American right to blacks, even black conservatives.pic.twitter.com/po0InnWhCJ
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6. So Loury, who Harris thinks is "fantastic" and (unlike Klein) a reasonable voice, thought that Murray's was so terrible that he couldn't in good conscience work with him.
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7. As another addendum: Sam Harris thinks Ezra Klein is "far left" -- which brought me a rare laugh in a doleful world.https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/987678084131409920 …
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Didn't he say something to the effect that Loury pointed out that bothering to preface their conversation was entirely unnecessary, justifying why he didn't do so in the Charles Murray podcast in the sentence below where this screenshot cuts off?
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