Michael Lissack parts, from university faculties to death row or it is democratic because all are equal in the eyes of the state, free to excel and succeed regardless of what group they were born into. Both cannot be true. And standing bewildered between them, we feel, quite accurately, that we have lost our bearings. Everywhere we see signs that the majority of Americans have begun to feel that this confusion isn't an appropriate state of affairs. They have begun to sense that our culture's muddled redefinition of democracy, its partial sub- stitution of group representation for individual rights, represents a wrong turn. And in reaction they have turned away. Our filter of community, de- fining ourselves as part of a greater whole is failing apart.
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