A self-described "scruffy Texas populist," Jim Hightower has made a career out of challenging America to live up to its ideals. Armed with a keen sense of the uproarious and hawking his latest book, Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow, Hightower came to campus March 12 as part of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts spring lecture series, Bearing Witness, to share some of the tales he collects of "ordinary people doing extraordinary things" in the service of "economic fairness, social justice, and equal opportunity for all."