The old debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington lives on, but the terms have been flipped on their heads.

Richard Thompson Ford is professor of law at Stanford Law School and author of several books including Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality (2011), Universal Rights Down to Earth (2012) and The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse (2009).