American democracy is a fine soil for growing the great oaks of freedom and opportunity, but that same rich earth has also been especially accommodating to the rank weed of snobbery. There’sno aristocracy of birth to keep Americans in their place. Envy and scorn send them up—and down—in the society.
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"Welfare Reform: The Institutional Dimension" by Lawrence M. Mead, in Focus (special issue, 2002), 1180 Observatory Dr., 3412 Social Science Bldg., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis. 53706.
"America’s Lost Egalitarian Tradition" by Sean Wilentz, in Daedalus (Winter 2002), Norton’s Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.