An impassioned rebuttle to Howard's The Death of Common Sense', Geoghegan shows how Conservatives' dismantling of the US postwar legal system has opened the floodgates of litigation. Arguing that people sue due to the loss of medical insurance, contracts and unions, and that without these methods of preempting and resolving disputes, American's face injury, bankruptcy, discrimination or injustice - are left with no recourse but to sue.'