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Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a staff writer at The New Yorker covering technology, academia, and books, among other topics. He is the author of the memoir “ A Sense of Direction.”

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Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
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The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden, author of the new book “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality,” is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.