THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture and Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race. He is a visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a columnist at Harper’s Magazine, he has written for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Le Monde, among other publications. He lives in Paris and New York.