I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.