Late Admissions
Confessions of a Black Conservative
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Publishing:20th Jan '26
£15.99
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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.
"So, does Loury’s delicate gambit — his attempt to garner sympathy while revealing some of his worst behavior — work? For this reader, the answer is unequivocally yes. Late Admissions is a zestfully written book, packed with humor, pathos and hard-earned wisdom." -- John McMillan - The Washington Post
"There is a sweetness and vulnerability to Mr. Loury’s search for catharsis-by-confession. He is a highly intelligent man, utterly flawed and irresistibly likable. If we judge him, it’s because he beckons us to do so, a wayward moth offering himself up to a public flame. Our verdict cannot be damning. For all his moral defects, we find ourselves admiring him for his intellectual valor and the pugnacity of his convictions." -- Tunku Varadarajan - The Wall Street Journal
"Unlike any economist’s memoir I have ever read.... Being in the thick of America’s culture wars, as a Black intellectual on the political right, has yielded a vivid bounty." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times
"Breathtakingly good, and extraordinarily candid. Loury is perhaps the best writer of nonfiction in America, but Late Admissions advances well beyond that. Its self-reflexive, ‘house of mirrors’ structure reminds me of Amor Towles’ prizewinning fiction. Even more deeply, the book has forced me to interrogate my own reactions to it." -- Robert D. Putnam, The New York Times best-selling author of Bowling Alone
ISBN: 9781324116721
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448 pages