Jim SleeperJim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics, is a lecturer in political science at Yale and the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and LiberalRacism. His reportage and commentary have appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Washington Monthly, Dissent, and other publications. Read More Read Less