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Richard T. Ford

Richard T. Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and author of Racial Culture.

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American cities have famously become fronts in the war on terrorism. This is not only—indeed not even primarily—because terrorists struck the twin towers in New York and are likely to continue to...
Richard T. Ford

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