Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.

Richard Ford

Richard Thompson Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He has written for the Washington PostSan Francisco ChronicleChristian Science Monitor, and for Slate, where he is a regular contributor. His latest books are Universal Rights Down to Earth and Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality.

Articles

Elitism can't be democratized.

Richard Ford

Tragically, it may be unrealistic to expect Americans—including police—to ignore race.

Richard Ford

Forum Responses

One must applaud Owen Fiss’s admonishment to end, lock stock and smoking barrel, the isolation and disempowerment that currently characterizes life in America’s urban ghettos. Likewise Professor Fiss’s description of the deplorable...
Richard Ford
Custom WordPress Development by Kevinleary.net

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.

Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

Poems-for-Political-Disaster-Twitter-1536x864

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.