Pablo Picasso, “The Weeping Woman I,” 1937 (MoMA)
Rabble-Rousing for Fun & Profit
The Outrage-Industrial Complex

In the culture of pervasive outrage, everything is an outrage, so nothing is.

Appeared in: Volume 15, Number 4 | Published on: December 17, 2019
Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor at Stanford Law School and author of several books, including Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality and The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse. Follow him on Twitter.
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