Dan Quayle, it might be said, put his ironies in the fire when he took on the entire legal profession in his A.B.A. speech. What is curious about this newly minted legal critic is not that the Vice President is a lawyer by training but that hitherto he has always been such an indifferent one.
When Quayle was under attack during the 1988 election campaign for enlisting in the National Guard in 1969 and thereby avoiding Vietnam, he had a simple explanation for his choice of military service: "I wanted to go to law school as soon as possible." But with...
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