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A conversation with Glenn Loury

  • Posted on November 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have been really busy lately and didn’t have time to write for the blog, but readers might be interested in my conversation with Glenn Loury, who kindly invited me to talk about police violence on his podcast after he…

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A few things I published elsewhere on police brutality

  • Posted on October 6, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…

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The reality of police violence in the US

  • Posted on September 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I wrote a post a few months ago that generated a lot of controversy and was heavily criticized. I wrote it after the officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted, which prompted everyone to lament the so-called epidemic of unarmed…

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Links – 06/21/2017

  • Posted on June 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Wall Street Journal published a long piece arguing that rural America has become the new inner city. The article doesn’t really talk about politics, but the political implications, especially with respect to the rise of Trump, are pretty obvious.…

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No, it’s not dangerous to be a black man in America, so let’s stop pretending otherwise

  • Posted on June 19, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you know, the cop who shot to death Philando Castile last summer was acquitted, which generated a lot of outrage. I don’t know enough about the detail of the death of Philando Castile to know whether the verdict in…

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More on the racial disparity in incarceration rates

  • Posted on March 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I argued in another post that, despite what most American liberals believe, racism can only explain a relatively small part of the white/black gap in incarceration rates. (If you haven’t read it yet, you should probably do so before you read…

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On the racial disparity in incarceration rates

  • Posted on March 2, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

According to the Pew Research Center, relative to white men, black men are disproportionately imprisoned by a factor of almost 6.5. In my experience, American liberals believe that racism in the criminal justice system explains the bulk of that disparity or,…

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