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C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Andrew Hackerxi Introduction 1 1 Empathy and False Empathy: The Problem with Liberalism 4 2 Legal Instrumentalism and the Rule of Law: A Blueprint for Reformers in Hard Times 37 3 Merit and Affirmative Action 62 4 American Apocalypse 99 5 Cosmopolitanism and Identity Politics 130 6 Citizenship: How Society Rejects the Very Persons It Most Needs 148 Epilogue 166 Notes 169 vn ...

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