The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far.(Review) (book review)

The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far, by Philip K. Howard. Random House, 224 pages, $22.95.

Nature, the Stoics taught, imposes no pain she does not also give us strength to bear. And what pain is easier to endure than that of other people? The "tort reform" movement in contemporary America is largely a discussion of how we should handle other people's suffering. Carl Bogus speaks for those who think it worthy of consideration and even compensation; Philip K. Howard will please those who find it trivial or even funny.

Howard, a corporate ...