{"product_id":"9780063336582","title":"Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen protestors at Columbia broke into a build­ing and created illegal encampments, the student-led \u003ci\u003eColumbia Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e demanded that finals be canceled because of “distress.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaw schools used to teach students how to think critically, advance logical arguments, and respect oppo­nents. Now, students steeped in cancel culture cannot tolerate disagreement and reject the validity of the rule of law itself. Rioting Ivy Leaguers are the same people who will soon:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe America’s judges, DAs, and prosecutors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFile and fight constitutional lawsuits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvise Fortune 500 companies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHire other left-wing diversity candidates to staff law firms and government offices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun for higher office with an agenda of only enforcing laws that suit left-wing whims\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLawless\u003c\/i\u003e, Ilya Shapiro explains how we got here and what we can do about it. The problem is bigger than radical students and biased faculty—it’s the institu­tional weakness that has allowed DEI bureaucracies to flourish. Shapiro met the mob firsthand when he posted a controversial tweet that led to calls for his firing from Georgetown Law. A four-month investi­gation eventually cleared him on a technicality but declared that if he offended anyone in the future, he’d create a “hostile educational environment” and be sub­ject to the inquisition again. Unable to do the job he was hired for, he resigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cannot continue. In \u003ci\u003eLawless\u003c\/i\u003e, Shapiro reveals how the illiberal takeover of legal education threatens academic freedom and is transforming our country. Unless we stop it now, the consequences will be with us for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43539355303997,"sku":"9780063336582","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780063336582_p0.jpg?v=1788277385","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780063336582","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}