Richard E. Morgan’s Disabling America: The “Rights Industry” in Our Time (Basic Books, $16.95) is the best book on the subject of contemporary public policy I have read this year, perhaps in several years. According to the author, who is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional Law and Government at Bowdoin College, it “falls into the literary genre of ‘things-I-must-get-off-my-chest,’ ” one of them being the modern mania for mincing words—a disorder to which Professor Morgan has not succumbed. The deep intellectual pleasures sustained by reading his book should nearly be matched by the delectations provided by anticipated reviews of it.
“We must face the fact,” Morgan begins,
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