The Disconnect Between a Conservative and a Conservatism

When I first met you in 1992, I was struck by this disconnect I found between this wonderfully articulate professor who was in front of me and people talking about you being a conservative. That was the real puzzle for me. So now I have it. When I got to BU in 1991, I had already spent nine years at Harvard where I came as professor of economics and of Afro-American studies. And there's a long story here. And I try to tell it in this memoir that's in process that will be published in the spring of 2024. But I had an important crisis of confidence in my life as what I was doing as an economic theorist. And I just wondered whether or