Andrew Hacker is an American political scientist and public intellectual. Currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York, he is the author of ten books, including the The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions (The New Press) and the New York Times bestseller Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and has written for the New York Times opinion page and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He lives in New York City.