Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, both in sociology. He is the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, 2005), Do Babies Matter Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox, 2016), and Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever, 2024). Wolfinger is the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.
""Having gone through an academic inquisition myself, I know all too well the perils the brave souls featured here went through. Like a samizdat collection from the gulag, their stories illustrate the illiberal takeover of higher education by political commissars and other apparatchiks."" - Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute ""I have read fairly widely studies of current challenges of higher education. This is the first to bring home the individual tragedies of professors caught up in the contemporary politicization of colleges and universities."" - Paul M. Sniderman, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy, Stanford University ""The testimonies in this important book provide a painful window onto the current state of our campuses. The authors' stories deserve careful, public discussion, the result of which, we can only hope, will be real change."" - Joshua T. Katz, Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute, formerly Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Princeton University ""Too many elite colleges have betrayed their own commitments to due process, free speech, and basic fairness. This book is an important exposé from those who have witnessed this unfairness firsthand: the professors. Read them in their own words; it's a vital effort to set the record straight."" - Robby Soave, Senior Editor, Reason