Editor’s Page

The Arguments section has been the liveliest part of the last few Dissents (and judging from readers’ responses, the most popular). The actual arguments have focused, several times now,on race and politics in America, and so we decided to treat that question at greater length in this issue. Martin Kilson and Phillip Richards focus, from very different angles, on the black middle class, which provided most of the participants in last October’s Million Man March,and whose pol...