Achieving a More Integrated America  

Despite the black family in the White House, this seems an odd moment to think about the possibilities for minority mobility and ethno-racial integration. Recent Census Bureau data demonstrate what we could have guessed from past economic downturns: African Americans …



A New Look at the Mafia  

The Mafia Mystique, by Dwight C. Smith, Jr. New York: Basic Books. 399 pp. When I told a friend that my Sicilian grandfather had died in jail, he asked without hesitation whether he had been killed by the Mafia because …