Three books to read in addition to Christopher Caldwell's, especially if his thesis about the sweeping effects of civil rights law seems exaggerated to you: amazon.com/Age-Entitlemen… 1/6
For anti-discrimination law as a threat to free speech, David Bernstein's "You Can't Say That." amazon.com/You-Cant-Say-T… 2/6
The single best book on how civil rights law came to pervade the American workplace is Frank Dobbin's "Inventing Equal Opportunity." amazon.com/Inventing-Equa… 3/6
This graph represents millions of people for whom ideological enforcement was, and is, a big part of their job description. 4/6 
Britain had a civil rights revolution, too, despite having nothing in their history remotely resembling Jim Crow. At this point they might have gone farther with it than we have, as James Heartfield's "Equal Opportunities Revolution" shows. amazon.com/Equal-Opportun… 5/6
Anti-discrimination law replaced (male) union reps and shop stewards with (female) human resources professionals. They perform similar functions, mediating between workers and management, but the cultural differences are huge. 6/6
Another good book is Shep Melnick's, nominally about Title IX but with good digressions on Adams v. Richardson, how sexual harassment was extrapolated (with dubious logic) from Title VII, and how nobody knows how big the civil rights bureaucracy really is. amazon.com/dp/B06XPMTT4K/
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