Lovely as it is, Ronin lacks Yardbird's oomph and free-spirited feeling, achieved through an egalitarian no-reservations policy, affordable prices, terrific cocktails, eclectic playlists (Kool and the Gang one minute, Boz Scaggs the next) and service that isn't just convivial but conspiratorial, with waiters and waitresses leaning in close to give you their counsel.
Whether in Virginia, Missouri or Illinois, there are no more egalitarian and no more Republican places in the United States than these exurbs.
No less an egalitarian than the political theorist Michael Walzer, who supports a "radical ban on private fund-raising," has suggested that candidates should at least be allowed to hold bake sales.
Moreover, the internet is no longer even egalitarian.
Having spent months getting there, she spends a couple of hours interviewing the queen and then she drives away in her Toyota, lamenting that Loveduland is no longer "an egalitarian paradise for liberated women".
Smiling, he said Greenwich should be no less egalitarian.
According to the French, their model is falling apart, no longer egalitarian and facing bankruptcy.
"Social democrats," wrote Polly Toynbee, "have no ultimate egalitarian endgame, only the constant pursuit of better, fairer, kinder, more honest, more democratic ways to live together".
Though he was no strict egalitarian (Derek Parfit argues that his theory is better construed as "prioritarian"), Rawls hoped to identify the principles of justice that hold for a democracy where people cooperate productively and see each other as moral equals.
