America, Race, and Building a More Perfect Union with Jason Riley and Roland Fryer

Описание: A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, Professor Fryer received tenure at Harvard University at age 30. A professor of economics, he conducts meticulous research on education reform, social interactions, and police use of force. Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. For over 20 years, he has written opinion pieces on politics, economics, education, immigration, and race. Mr. Riley is a recipient of the 2018 Bradley Prize, a frequent public speaker, and the author of several books, including most recently The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.

Riley and Fryer delivered these remarks at the 2025-2026 series of the Levy Forum for Open Discourse. The Levy Forum is a speaker series hosted at the Palm Beach Synagogue, sponsored by ACTA board member Paul Levy and ACTA. The goal of these events is to promote the epistemic virtues that ACTA seeks to promote on university campuses across the country, such as curiosity, objectivity, and wisdom.

00:11 Rabbi Moshe Scheiner Opening Remarks
02:48 Paul S. Levy Opening Remarks
06:13 Michael Poliakoff Opening Remarks
11:18 The Distance Forward and the Challenges of the Unfamiliar
16:45 The Income Gap
26:04 The Politics of Respectability
43:03 The Bureaucrats of the Houston School District
54:28 Affirmative Action
01:07:58 Top Remedies for a More Perfect Union
01:13:45 Q&A Session

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