Barbara Ehrenreich’s Singular Crusade: “On July 9, the Raleigh News & Observer printed a full-page advertisement representing the views of a coalition of conservative students and state legislators. The ad — billed as an “open letter” to state residents — lashed top officials of the University of North Carolina, who preside over a summer reading program for incoming freshmen. UNC-CHAPEL HILL DOES IT AGAIN, the ad proclaimed. INCOMING UNC CHAPEL HILL FRESHMEN ‘EXPECTED’ TO READ BOOK BY RADICAL SOCIALIST. The “radical socialist” was the writer Barbara Ehrenreich, and the book — “a classic Marxist rant” that “mounts an all-out assault on Christians, conservatives and capitalism,” according to the ad — was Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” —Columbia Journalism Review