Join us for an engaging discussion on Crime in the 21st Century with Dr. Wilfred Reilly and Steve Sailer, moderated by Dr. Mark Bauerlein.
The panel will explore the paradoxical effects of various movements and examine how periods of heightened activism correlated with increased crime rates. This discussion will shed light on lesser-known consequences, such as the indirect impact on public safety when law enforcement presence diminishes.
Wilfred Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, and the author of the books "Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About,' "Hate Crime Hoax," and "The $50,000,000 Question." Reilly has published pieces in PNAS, Academic Questions, Commentary, Quillette, and a number of other journals and magazines. His research interests include international relations and the prevention of war, contemporary American race relations, and the use of modern quantitative methods to test "sacred cow" theories such as the existence of widespread white privilege. Off work, he enjoys dogs, archery, basketball, Asian cooking, and beer. Reilly has been described, by himself, as "the greatest mind of a generation."
Steve Sailer is an opinion journalist focusing on the major controversies of the age, such as crime, immigration, feminism, transgenderism, the Great Awokening, the Racial Reckoning, and human biodiversity. His willingness to follow the findings of both the human sciences and his lying eyes to their inconvenient implications has made him one of the more controversial and influential commentators of the era. His ideas, while seldom explicitly cited, are read and pondered by America’s leading public intellectuals on both the right and the left. Known for the notoriety and reasonableness of his trenchant insights and the normality of his personality, he lives in his native suburban Southern California. His new anthology Noticing is available from Passage Press and Amazon, while his Substack is at SteveSailer.Net.
Dr. Marvin Dunn, a native Floridian, is Professor Emeritus and retired Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Florida International University. Born during the Jim Crow era, he brings a perspective to black history that has been missed, distorted and minimalized in the past. He co- authored The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds (1984), authored Black Miami in the Twentieth Century (1997), A History of Florida Through Black Eyes (2016) and The Kingsleys (2022).
Dr. Dunn established Roots in the City, an inner-city gardening program and founded the Dr. Marvin Dunn Academy for Community Education, a Miami-Dade public high school for at- risk youth. He is the president of the Miami Center for Racial Justice, a non-profit organization based at Barry University and dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of blacks in Florida.
Dr. Dunn appears regularly on local and national television broadcasts, providing insight on race issues in America. He has been published in major newspapers and he is a nationally respected scholar, author, historian and community activist in race and ethnic relations. He lives in Miami Florida.
Much of his work can be found at dunnhistory.com
Mark Bauerlein is Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things magazine. In 2003–‘05, he served as the Director, Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001) and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008). His essays have appeared in Yale Review, Partisan Review, Wilson Quarterly, PMLA, and Philosophy and Literature. Apart from his scholarly work, Dr. Bauerlein publishes in popular periodicals such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, TLS, and Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by media outlets more than 500 times, including spots on CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC World Today, CBS News, Nightline, PBS Frontline, and 20/20. Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English from UCLA.
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