It is no secret that the social problems of urban life in the United States are, in great measure, associated with race.
While rising rates of crime, drug addiction, out-of-wedlock births, female-headed families. and welfare deoendencv have af- flicted American society generally in recent years, the increases have been most dramatic among what has become a large and seemingly permanent black underclass inhabiting the cores of the nation's major cities.
And yet, liberal journalists, social scientists,...