review of Invisible Victims , Frederick R. Lynch's seminal study of the impact of affirmative action (a.k.a.) quotas on white males. Quotas are a zero-sum game, so somebody has to suffer. But at that point, as Lynch noted, the double-think about affirmative action was so extreme that its very existence was denied. Similarly, the systematic repression of news and analysis about mass immigration meant that the subject was effectively excised from the public consciousness until well into the 1990s. At one time, I regarded affirmative action as the key wedge issue in American politics. When I worked for Senator Orrin Hatch