Steven M TelesSteven M. Teles is professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is the author or coauthor of The Captured Economy, Prison Break, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, and Whose Wlfare: AFDC and Elite Politics. In addition, he is coeditor of Conservatism and American Political Development and Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy. He has also written widely in a number of general interest publications, from the Nation, Democracy, the Washington Monthly, and the American Prospect to the Public Interest, National Review, and National Affairs. Read More Read Less