Jen­nifer Burns is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, a research fel­low at the Hoover Insti­tu­tion, and author of God­dess of the Mar­ket: Ayn Rand and the Amer­i­can Right. She has writ­ten for The NewYork Times, The Finan­cial Times, Bloomberg, and Dis­sent, and has dis­cussed her work on The Dai­ly Show, The Col­bert Report, and elsewhere.