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Article: Breaking ranks: Glenn Loury's change of heart--and mind.(The Anatomy of Racial Inequality)(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- December 18, 2002
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GLENN C. LOURY had a lot going for him in the 1980s. The first black to be tenured in economics at Harvard, Loury was a famed black neoconservative and opponent of affirmative action. He dined at the White House and joined the Reagan administration. Conservative journals vied for his work. He was on the "A" list for events hosted by people like William F. Buckley Jr. and William Bennett.
But when Loury hit bottom as the result of a drug addiction id 1988, it was the 23rd Psalm, not friends in high places, that rescued him. He was in a court-ordered drug-rehabilitation program when an outreach worker from a black church urged him to pray the psalm.
"I had ...