Charlie Sykes is the author of Fail U: The False Promise of Higher Education, Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism -- from Goldwater to Trump and Beyond, and How the Right Lost Its Mind. He is a former editor-in-chief of RightWisconsin.com and former host of WNYC's Indivisible, a public radio program about America in a time of change.
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