A Yale professor of political science named Douglas Rae has written—with the assistance of Douglas T. Yates Jr., Jennifer L. Hoch-schild, Joseph Morone, and Carol Fessler—an interesting dissertation on the subject of equality and inequality. The book, called simply Equalities (Harvard, $19.50), is brief, but best suited to people to whom brains have been distributed in somewhat better than equal measure. (No apologies are forthcoming from the authors.)
Rae and company take as their starting point the dour prediction of Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote:
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