Stanford Law School, Room 95
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The Stanford Center for Law and History is pleased to announce a book talk with John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale, who will present his new work, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon & Schuster, 2025), in conversation with Rob Reich, McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology at Stanford.
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund. The men and women around the Fund believed that American capitalism was broken; that American democracy (if it had ever existed) stole from those who had the least; and that American institutions needed to be radically remade for the modern age. A luminous testament to the power of visionary organizations and a meditation on the vexed role of money in American life, The Radical Fund is a hopeful book for our anxious, angry age—an empowering road map for how people with heretical ideas can bring about audacious change.