"Pandemic and Civil Unrest Costs: Whatever the merits of the protest may be or will be, the opportunity costs of this moment are staggering. In addition to all the tangible effects of what's happening, the injury and death, the lost businesses, the burned buildings, the neighborhoods that won't recover for years in many cities, the educations put on hold, and the breakdown in public trust of almost every institution."

"Systemic Racism and Social Unrest: What we're experiencing is widespread social unrest in response to what is widely believed to be an epidemic of lethal police violence directed at the black community by racist cops and racist policies."

"Civil Discourse in Crisis: What's easy to know is that civil discourse has broken down, And it seems to me we've long been in a situation where the craziest voices on both ends of the political spectrum have been amplifying one another and threatening to produce something truly dangerous."

"Addressing Racial Inequality: The difference between being very lucky in our society and very unlucky should not be as enormous as it is."

"Critique of Social Activism: And the problem with the social activism we're now seeing, what John McWhorter calls the new religion of antiracism, is that it finds racism nearly everywhere, even where it manifestly does not exist. And this is incredibly damaging to the cause of achieving real equality in our society."

"Racial Tensions in America: I believe that any sane person who watches that video will feel that they have witnessed a totally unjustified killing. So people of any race are right to be horrified by what happened there."

"Crime Rates and Police Violence: But in the last 25 years, violent crime has come down significantly in the US, and so has the police use of deadly force."

"Racial Bias and Police Forces": "I don't know if we have data on the numbers of people who resist arrest by race, but I can well imagine that if it's common for African Americans to believe that the only reason they have been singled out for arrest is due to racism on the part of the police, that could lead to greater levels of noncompliance, which seems very likely to lead to more unnecessary injury and death. And this is certainly one reason why it's wise to have the racial composition of a police force mirror that of the community it's policing."

"Vision of a Post-Racial Future: We want to get to a world in which skin color and other superficial characteristics of a person become morally and politically irrelevant."

"Future of Post-Racial Society: Now you might agree with me about the goal and about how a post racial society would seem, But you might disagree about the path to get there and the question of what to do next."