The Conformist

Ann Althouse in The New York Times reviews Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

If this is an "assault on our civil rights," as the subtitle has it, we might expect to hear how the courts can save us, but readers who get their hopes up will be disappointed, even as readers (like me) who dread an overambitious litigation agenda are disarmed. To his credit, Yoshino recognizes that the problems he has described lie mostly in the realm of personal relationships and, more important, the individual's own inhibitions. What could the legal solution to covering be?