To get a starkly disturbing idea of how deeply American liberals have failed in understanding, honoring and executing the Founders' republican mission, all one has to do is, amazingly, look at the front page of last Thursday's New York Times. David D. Kirkpatrick offers a stellar profile of Janice Rogers Brown, a black "daughter of Alabama sharecroppers" finally confirmed the day before by the Senate to sit on the D.C. federal appeals bench. Given the liberal bent of The Times, it would be easy to read the headline -- "Seeing slavery in liberalism" -- in the mocking tone that one...