Back when I was in the opening push to promote Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, New York Times columnist Pamela Paul wrote a very positive piece discussing me and the book. In it, I mentioned that my lovely wife LaJuan and I sometimes listen to some of her favorite podcasts together, and those podcasts have a decidedly left political perspective. The podcasters Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular of Due Dissidence noticed that I dropped their name, and they extended an offer to LaJuan and me to appear on the show.
We took them up on it, and we’re reposting the resulting episode here. It looks like I’m outnumbered three to one, but the agreements among LaJuan, Keaton, Russell, and I find here are at least as interesting as the disagreements. You’ll hear us discuss my memoir and how all of our upbringings influenced our politics, free speech and the Gaza War protests, the decline of the Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Thomas, abortion, economic regulation, capitalism and socialism, Kamala Harris, Trumps’s appearance at the NABJ conference, and more.
This is a fun, wide-ranging discussion that’s sure to get some people riled up. But if I didn’t do that every once in a while, I wouldn’t be doing my job.
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LaJuan Loury, Keaton Weiss & Russell Dobular – Due Dissidence