Have Lawyers Helped Put America in a Tailspin?

Steven Brill, the journalist who founded The American Lawyer and Court TV, has released his latest book Tailspin, which examines the past five decades to explain how America has dug itself into a rut where Congress can’t seem to agree on anything and corporate interests are protected over everyday people.

The reason the country has become so divided—both ideologically and socioeconomically—is that the principles that formed America’s core values have become “too much of a good thing,” Brill said in an interview.

“It wasn’t at all that someone sat around and said, ‘Okay, let’s pull these five strings, ...