Kennedy’s Policy Legacies: Education and Health Care

The World

We speak to Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and author of “The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy,” about Kennedy’s policy legacies in education and health care.

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