Two Nations

Andrew Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York City. He is the author of "Mismatch" and "Money, " as well as eight other books, and is a frequent contributor to "The New York Review of Books, Time, " and "Fortune, " among other periodicals. Mr. Hacker lives in New York City.

"The Boston Globe" Devastating....We are left with the crushing effect of what we have done to ourselves by using race as our defining tool and lying most of the time about what we are doing.