Modern Conservatism Is Morally Bankrupt

Glenn C. Loury’s new book, “Late Admissions,” is unlike any economist’s memoir I have ever read. Most don’t mention picking up streetwalkers. Or smoking crack in a faculty office at Harvard’s Kennedy School — or in an airplane at 30,000 feet. Or stealing a car. Or having sex on a beach in Israel with a mistress and attracting the attention of the Israel Defense Forces. Or later being arrested and charged with assaulting her. Or cuckolding a best friend.

From the New York Times.

A libertarian leaning academic economist nonetheless observes that "even given all this, Loury has a good career as an economist and as an public intellectual."

I remember a time when part of conservatism involved a commitment to the rule of law, and a strict traditional moral code. It was also an ideology that believed strongly that if you couldn't conform to the moral code, or just messed up, that you shouldn't brag about it, and instead should keep it a closely guarded secret to protect your reputation. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and black conservative academics are no exception to this trend.