“How Critical Is Our Condition?”

Four comments on Dennis Wrong’s article in our last issue — by Tom J. Farer, Mark Levinson, Seymour Martin Lipsit, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. — with a reply by Dennis Wrong

Dennis Wrong has written a modest essay, perhaps more modest than he realizes, on the future of egalitarian reform in America. In large measure he may be right, as far as he goes; whether he goes very far is another matter.

Wrong begins with the ominous announcement: “I do not recall a time when ...