In this attack on legal regulations and bureaucratic red tape, a corporate lawyer shows how rules interfere with common sense and have taken away citizens' power to make decisions.
Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choicesa??teachers cana??t maintain order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candour, schools ban the game of tag and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: a??Remove Baby Before Folding Strollera??. Philip K. Howarda??s urgent and elegant argument is full of examples, ...
In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claiming their "individual rights." By turns funny and ...
The napkin sketch is a familiar concept to architects - the spontaneous drawing executed anywhere, anytime, on any surface available - and many famous buildings are said to have originated in quick scribbles on a tablecloth, matchbook cover, or a napkin during the course of a dinner conversation.
Distressing, disturbing, devastatingly detailed--this stunning examination of how modern laws are diminishing America exposes the drawbacks of rule-bound government, tells why nothing gets done, reveals the phony pretensions of law, and shows why well-intentioned laws have actually devalued rights. In short, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates ...
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