RALPH WHITEHEAD, JR., professor, teaches the press and politics, social reporting, writing about popular culture, covering elections, and media criticism. Whitehead was a political writer in Newark, N.J., and at the Chicago Sun-Times, and has been a Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and of the Center for Policy Study of the University of Chicago. His articles and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, Commonweal, Saturday Review, The New Republic, and other journals. He has worked as a consultant to political campaigns and government agencies. Whitehead earned his bachelor’s degree at Lawrence College and his master’s at the University of Wisconsin (1967).