Philip Kadish is an adjunct pro­fes­sor of Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Pace Uni­ver­si­ty in New York City with a PhD in Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture. His spe­cial­ty is the impact of sci­en­tif­ic racism on U.S. cul­ture. His op-eds con­nect­ing 19th cen­tu­ry his­to­ry to con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can pol­i­tics have appeared on CNN​.com and NBC​.com.