Is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. I attended the Public Schools in troy, new york. I went to college at yale college, in the early 1970s, which was when yale was just beginning to accept women. I majored in biophysics and biochemistry. I then went to oxford on a marshall scholarship to study phi
Amy wax i was raised, born and raised in troy, new york, which is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. I attended the Public Schools in troy, new york. I went to college at yale college, in the early 1970s, which was when yale was just beginning to accept women. I majored in biophysics and biochemistr
Brian lamb amy wax. Before i ask you questions about why we asked you to come here, i wanted to go through your background. Where are you from . Amy wax i was raised, born and raised in troy, new york, which is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. I attended the Public Schools in troy, new york. I wen
Now, at the age of 74, he teaches at Brown University and hosts a popular podcast where he has a lot to say about some of the most charged issues of the day. Democrats have ruined city after city. What does professor glenn loury say now . Firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by. And by. Corporate funding is provided by. Professor glenn loury, welcome back to firing line. Oh, thank you, margaret. Good to be back. Youve described what it was like to grow up in what you called a vivid and stylish, lowermiddleclass neighborhood in chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s, you taught at harvard. And during that era, you selfidentified as a reagan republican but later then became disillusioned with the right in the mid 1990s. Tell me about that evolution and what happened. Well, i think it begins in graduate school in the 70s for me, when im studying economics at m. I. T. And i become acquainted with ideas about free markets and capitalism that appealed to me the vir
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