"The Barber" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor.
The story involves a professor who feels a need to explain his liberal political views to a conservative barbershop.
[1] Tim Lieder notes that a story about a man trying to argue racists out of their racism lands differently after 8 years of Obama.
Throughout the story, it’s the college professor (and not the Barber and his companions) that plays the fool.
He is corrected by his audience who seem to understand the economic stakes he has up for grabs with the election better than he does.