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All of this makes the case that inequality is indeed “the great moral issue of our time,” and so, naturally, the preoccupation of the Left. But there’s more. Movements for racial and gender justice and equality have made it clear that formal equality — that is, equality before the law, the equality of rights that is supposed to attach to every individual — remains, as it always has in American history, unfinished business, notwithstanding constitutional amendments, various legislative acts, and court decisions.