John K. Wilson is the author of Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies (Paradigm Publishers 2008); Newt Gingrich: Capitol Crimes and Misdemeanors (Common Courage Press 1996); and The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education (Duke University Press 1995), among several other titles. A former student of Barack Obama at the University of Chicago, Wilson is an Illinois native who currently lives in Chicago and has watched Obama rise from state senator to U.S. senator to president of the United States. Wilson has discussed his work in major media forums including C-SPAN, the O'Reilly Factor, and the Huffington Post.