Nicholas KristofThinkers

Journalism is responsible for creating narratives in our minds. When when we have such narratives, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray president gerald ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Poverty is linked to bad choices, though liberals too often deny this to be the case.

Prison is the one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to african-Americans.