Late Admissions

Confessions of a Black Conservative

De: Glenn Loury

Narrado por: Glenn Loury

Duración: 18 h y 27 m

Resumen del Editor

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.

Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism—his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs.

Loury grew up on the south side of Chicago, earned a PhD in MIT's economics program, and became the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. He has been, at turns, a young father, a drug addict, an adulterer, a psychiatric patient, a born-again Christian, a lapsed born-again Christian, a Black Reaganite who has swung from the right to the left and back again. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous, but well-considered, life.

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A Self-Assessment

I think that Prof. Loury was pretty brutally honest about his professional and personal lives, and they were definitely two separate experiences. It was fascinating to hear how he rationalized his behavior, but he seems unable to understand WHY he pursued the dual paths he vividly describes. An interesting memoir for where it does and doesn’t go.

feel like I know him

I have been watching blogging heads with him and Mcquarter for years. when I saw his book was out AND he was narrerating....I was so excited. I finished it in two days, compelling is an understatement. his repetitive use of the tool, there's the cover story and there's the real story is freaking genius. Then there are some weird antitheticals that I can't believe were left unedited. The fact that at least once every 1000 words is one that I've never heard of and that sometimes more than once, he mispronounces embarrassingly common words, abyss is one, is so strange to me. Still a hard recommended for anyone who grew up poor and worked your way up through academia.

Candid and revealing

While shocked by the candor and disclosures it did greatly deepen my understanding of Glenn’s analysis of which I’ve always found thought provoking.

the author's honesty

the fact that Glenn disowned Christianity. I was hoping that by the end of the book he would have come back.