Today's Multiracial Americans Are At

Sometimes When I Listen To Fellow Progressives, I Wonder If The Only Lesson We Took Away From The '04 Elections Is That Politics Is A Word Game.

To Be Sure, The United States Has Profound Problems, Not Least Our Faltering Educational And Physical Infrastructure.

We All Want Merit To Mean Something, And We All May Be Tempted To Reduce That Meaning To Something Measurable And Concrete Like An Sat Score. The Reality, Though, Is That Who Deserves Entry Into An Institution Depends On What The Institution Exists To Do.

Society Becomes How You Behave.

In The End, A New Americanization Movement Can't Just Be About Listing Our Privileges And Immunities, Which We Catalog In Our Laws. It Also Has To Be About Reinforcing Our Duties, Which We Convey In Our Habits.