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Judging from Blumenthal and Rowland's quick condemnation of such measures, you'd think that the court had ordered them into effect right away. But in fact, the justices declined to impose any plan to reduce the racial isolation of Hartford's 95% minority student body, leaving it up to...
William Julius Wilson's books, says Bill Clinton, "made me see race and poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light." Indeed, no thinker has done more than the 60-year-old sociologist to explain why the black underclass sank into such misery and isolation at...
The magazines devoted to men only increase their isolation. GQ, for example, tempts guys with all the cool things they can have if they don't share their paycheck with a wife and kids: Italian shoes, fly-fishing vacations, babes galore. The masculine ideal of popular culture has long since...
Crain and others have found, however, that academic-achievement tests are only one measure of what schools offer--another important one being what researchers call "life chances." The "great barrier to black social and economic mobility is isolation from the opportunities and networks of the middle class," Crain says. School...
What we could take away from the grievous events is a grasp not of the Unabomber's psychology but of our own, which is full of fantasies. The Unabomber had hoped to move against technology--which does need slowing down--but he did it from a hidden place. That annulled...