Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The charges Amy faces at Penn
4:08 Glenn: I’ve said some of things that have gotten Amy in trouble myself
10:04 Amy: “You might as well erase the veritas from [Penn’s] mission statement”
18:18 What’s really at issue in the Amy Wax indictment
24:06 Amy’s race realist rebuttal to DEI
34:43 Isn’t there room for some efforts toward proportional representation?
43:46 When IQ differences matter and when they don’t
Recorded March 20, 2024
Links and Readings
The leaked Penn Hearing Board recommendations
Glenn’s 2021 conversation with Charles Murray
Charles Murray’s book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Amy’s review of Facing Reality in the Claremont Review
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| 0:46.4 | Hello everybody, this is Glenn Lowry. |
| 0:48.1 | You've tuned into the Glenn show. |
| 0:50.0 | I teach at Brown University. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm the Mert Stokes Professor of the Social Sciences there and Professor of |
| 0:54.8 | Economics. |
| 0:56.5 | And I'm also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, the John Paulson Senior Fellow. |
| 1:01.8 | Manhattan Institute sponsors the Glenn Show. I'm joined today by Amy |
| 1:07.0 | Wax who is Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and a prolific writer and commentator on social issues and also |
| 1:16.6 | something of a notorious figure as she's been brought up on charges at her home university, |
| 1:21.5 | the University of Pennsylvania, very famously so. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, it's been very much discussed. |
| 1:27.0 | And she's back at the Glenn Show after a hiatus, and I'm happy to welcome her back. |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome Amy. |
| 1:37.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:39.0 | Nice to be back. |
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