Conventional wisdom has it that economic regulation, labor unions, and the civil rights movement have long been fast friends. Not so, says George Mason University law professor David Bernstein in a new book, Only One Place of Redress. Applying the insights of public choice theory to legal history, Bernstein argues that the much‐​maligned jurisprudence of the Lochner era‐​with its emphasis on freedom of contract and private market ordering‐​actually discouraged discrimination and assisted groups with little political clout. Please join us for a discussion of this provocative thesis with its author.