An Ivy League Professor on What the Campus Conversation on Race Gets Wrong

Glenn Loury is an outlier in this environment — his politics are difficult to pin down exactly, but they’re probably best described as right of center. An author and professor of economics at Brown University, Loury has written books questioning what he sees as the liberal orthodoxy on race and history, including One by One from the Inside Out and The Anatomy of Racial Inequality.College professors are increasingly liberal — according to a study cited in The Washington Post earlier this year, the percentage of American professors identifying as “liberal” or “far left” jumped from 42 percent in 1990 to 60 percent in 2014.