Where have you gone, Joe Lieberman? At one point in time--say, seven years ago--Joe Lieberman was one of the few leading Democrats (Bill Clinton was another) to talk a new politics of race. His early backing of civil rights in the 1960s demonstrated his commitment to African American equality, and he was supportive of many paleoliberal remedies for black marginalization. But what set Lieberman apart was his emphasis on the importance of rescuing the black family to improve the plight of African Americans; and on the way in which affirmative action was undermining the principle of individual equality of opportunity...