Late Admissions - Confessions of a Black Conservative

Glenn C. Loury is often radically opposed to the political mainstream and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more than the arguments themselves-on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism-his public life has been characterised 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 programme 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 and a Black Reaganite. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous but well-considered, life.

About the author

Glenn C. Loury, a prominent social critic, is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of economics at Brown University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn C Loury, Loury Glenn C.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9781324116721
• ISBN: 978-1-324-11672-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Political leaders & leadership, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black