“…unless you want to be a lawyer.”
reason: That would thin the herd pretty quickly, wouldn’t it?
Rauch: Yeah, it sure would.
– Jonathan Rauch, interviewed by Nick Gillespie in the new Reason (“The Radical Incrementalist”, Apr. 20).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on April 22, 2007
“…unless you want to be a lawyer.”
reason: That would thin the herd pretty quickly, wouldn’t it?
Rauch: Yeah, it sure would.
– Jonathan Rauch, interviewed by Nick Gillespie in the new Reason (“The Radical Incrementalist”, Apr. 20).
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