“Illuminating…. A well-researched, potent, timely investigation of yet another element of systemic racism.”

-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Adam Harris is a brilliant storyteller. He has used his unique literary gifts to synthesize two centuries of history in order to construct an historical account of higher-education that reads like a novel. The State Must Provide is a book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer.”

-- Clint Smith, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller How the Word is Passed

Adam is an award-winning journalist. He is currently a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national politics. He is the author of The State Must Provide, a narrative history of racial inequality higher education, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. He was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. Prior to joining The Chronicle he worked at ProPublica, and has been a National Fellow at New America. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list and his writing has appeared in BBC, Bleacher Report, and EBONY Magazine.

Adam is currently working on his second book, Is This America?, a history of the South’s role in politics and how the region shapes us as a nation—but not always in the ways we assume it does, which will be published by Pantheon.