Carlos Lozada
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812 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Carlos Lozada’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's about journeys that he's taking from one version of himself to another.
You know, in Hillbilly Elegy, well, first, it's a story of his ancestors moving from, you know, the mountains of Kentucky to, you know, southwest Ohio, where he had a chaotic, kind of abusive childhood.
He makes it to the Marines, then to Ohio State, then Yale Law, right?
And kind of like...
adapts and becomes a different person at each step.
Communion, which is published almost exactly 10 years after Hillbilly Elegy, is about a different passage.
It's about his move from his early Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, so much so that, you know, he is even now...
engaging in political and doctrinal battles with the Pope.
It's not bad for someone who was baptized less than seven years ago.
It's almost like he's filling in another side of the story that is happening at the same time as the action in Hillbilly Elegy.
And in fact, as E.J.
said, he started writing this book right after finishing that first one.
I mean...
You know, I think people do evolve over time, especially, you know, if the first—if you're sort of prominent or important or interesting enough to write multiple memoirs.
Hillbilly Elegy was, you're right, very disparaging, I thought.
I thought at the time, and rereading it now, of the world that he grew up in, right?
You know, he talks about the hub of misery that he experienced in the 80s and the 90s.
And how it was almost always the fault of those who were suffering it.
And he blamed the culture, right?
He didn't blame, you know, big, amorphous political or economic forces.
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