Rob Henderson had a chaotic childhood in a series of constantly changing and often abusive foster homes, described in his best-selling memoir "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class." He acquired self-discipline from a stretch in the Air Force and has since succeeded brilliantly, graduating with a BA in psychology from Yale and PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. An outsider in these elite institutions, he became an acute observer of what he calls "luxury beliefs", which "confer status on the upper class, at very little cost, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes."

Henderson is currently a columnist at The Free Press and The Boston Globe, and has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. His talk is sponsored by the Program on Freedom and Free Societies

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