The Strategy of Memoir
A discussion of Late Admissions
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Last week, George Mason University economist Peter J. Boettke invited me to participate in an online conversation for the Liberty Fund’s book club, No Due Date. I was honored, because the book under discussion was my memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. I’ve done a lot of public talks and conversations about the book, but this is one of the few focused mostly on economics and economic history, so I was in my element and having a blast.
The discussion is only semi-public, so I’m grateful to Peter, Amy Willis, and No Due Date for giving me permission to post here. I checked out some of Peter’s other selections for the series, and I’m impressed. Recently, they’ve discussed David Skarbek’s The Puzzle of Prison Order, Jennifer Burns’s biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, Shirley Letwin’s intellectual history The Pursuit of Certainty, and Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, to name a handful. That’s an absolute feast of ideas. I found the conversation deep and stimulating. So if you’re looking for a book club that’s got some real intellectual weight to it, I recommend signing up for No Due Date.