Race Games, Old and New

The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, by Richard Thompson Ford (Farrar, Straus, 400 pp., $26)

IT’s hard to imagine a more red-meat-conservative title. At last, someone—a black law professor from Stanford, no less-is calling attention to the vast injustice of misplaced accusations of bigotry. The book itself turns out to be a bit of a bait-and-switch-it’s a wide-ranging collection of essays, with few strong attacks on bias hustlers-but it contains much of value.