Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. After joining the Journal in 1994, he was named a senior editorial writer in 2000 and a member of the editorial board in 2005. A graduate of State University of New York at Buffalo, he is the author of several books, including “Please Stop Helping Us,” “The Black Boom,” and most recently, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell.”