The issue that Lani Guinier attacks in her writings -- the tyranny of the majority, as James Madison described it -- is neither obscure nor an unworthy target. But it's small wonder that few people are familiar with her scholarship. Turgid and ambiguous, Guinier's writing is not the stuff of bedtime reading. A case in point is her 48,948-word article in the Michigan Law Review of March 1991, titled "The Triumph of Tokenism," which Clinton singled out last week in explaining why he was withdrawing her nomination. "Many of her analyses I agree with," he said, but he dismissed her proposals...
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