When Everything Is a Crime: Harvey Silverglate on the Overregulation of Ordinary Life

Summary: Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with Harvey Silverglate, who, in his long career as an attorney and journalist, has seen a rising bureaucratic class enact hundreds of thousands of federal regulations and vaguely-worded statutes. The result has been the criminalization of everyday life. From university campuses to corporate boardrooms, ever more citizens are facing severe punishments for behavior that was once considered harmless. Produced by Todd Krainin. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Cameras by Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein.