Roland Fryer on the Cost of Telling the Truth

Roland Fryer on the Cost of Telling the Truth

Roland Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, the youngest black academic ever to receive tenure there, and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his research on racial inequality, education, and policing. His findings have often put him at odds with progressive orthodoxy, and he’s paid a real price for it over the years, including death threats and a shot-out window over a program that simply paid kids to do well in school. Fryer returns to the show to talk with Coleman Hughes about the Jason Arday scandal, which he sees as a symptom of the same institutional cowardice he’s trying to fix. That’s the thinking behind his and Bill Ackman’s new venture, the Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage, a $1 million prize designed to reward scholars willing to publish research academia is too afraid to touch. They also get into why elite universities avoid academic risk, what Fryer’s own research actually shows about race and intelligence, and how a stint doing stand-up comedy shaped the way he thinks about persuasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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He Couldn’t Save His Brother on 9/11. He Spent the Next 25 Years Saving Others.

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Frank Siller’s youngest brother, Stephen, was orphaned at 10, grew up to become a New York City firefighter, and was driving home from a night shift on the morning of September 11, 2001, when he heard...

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The Secret Recordings That Reveal How Presidents Really Think

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Nathan Cofnas on Race, IQ, and the Jason Arday Scandal That Made Him Famous

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