Late Admissions with Glenn Loury
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
6:00 p.m. ET (5:30 reception)
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
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On Wednesday, October 30, economist Glenn Loury (APS 2011) will join APS Press editor at large Peter Dougherty (APS 2023) to discuss Loury's new memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.
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.
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 was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.