On Wednesday, January 20, the Peace Now movement held a meeting to protest the Israeli government’s handling of the Arab uprising on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. It was a wet, cold Jerusalem night, and the mood …
Free trade is a myth. It does not exist; it never did exist, with the possible and limited exception of a brief period when Britain practiced it as well as preached it to expand its near-monopoly over world manufacture. It …
Since the depths of the Volcker-Reagan recession of the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has followed a course of economic expansion that has heartened supporters of the Reagan administration and put its critics on the defensive. In terms of the …
Neoconservative Michael Novak, once a man who decried U.S. military and political encroachment in other lands, has written another apologia for U.S. policy in Latin America in the guise of a critique of Latin American liberation theology. Novak charges, with …
There are fewer and fewer places to be poor in the city of America’s future. Walk down any residential street on the periphery of downtown; it teems with immigrant families doubling and tripling up in small apartments. A Los Angeles …
Imbued with a salutary populist distrust of bankers, Americans only grudgingly and belatedly accepted the public need for a central bank analogous to the Bank of England and similar institutions in Western Europe. Major bank failures early in this century …
For almost a quarter century, Americans have been engaged in a kind of civil war, divided into two camps defined by fundamentally different moral-cultural perceptions. That idea, which would have been a surprise to Tocqueville or Bryce, has haunted our …
The road from Leningrad to Moscow stretches some 450 miles, a distance that I, on advice of my doctor, my conscience, and a consuming curiosity about some hidden aspects of Soviet life, set out to walk recently, in the company …
Recent events in Britain offer little cheer for anyone committed to democratic socialism. After what was widely held to be Labour’s most effective election campaign in twenty years, Labour gained a share of the vote that was only 3.5 percent …
The most important political issue—in peacetime—is always the economy. This basic truth will only intensify over the coming decade, as the United States continues its painful transition from an industrial economy built on assembly-line manufacturing in large, stable firms, to …
I was privileged to be Bayard’s friend for over forty-five years and a colleague for the past twenty-three. I would like to try to give some sense of what made Bayard—not his activities, not his achievements, not his politics—these have …
In the history of Soviet culture, the spring of 1987 will go down as a time of significant changes. A year ago we could only speak of a “thaw,” major changes in the principal branches of culture. But as of …
Millions of families with children— those who don’t belong to the affluent upper crust, and even some of those who do—are having a tough time in America today. Their problems deserve a place on our national agenda, and policies designed …
Why have the social conditions of the ghetto underclass deteriorated so rapidly in recent years? Racial discrimination is the most frequently invoked explanation, and it is undeniable that discrimination continues to aggravate the social and economic problems of poor blacks. …
As a love that dared not speak its name and then refused to shut up, homosexuality was officially superseded last October by the breathless, embattled new patriotism of former “Movement” radicals who met in Washington to burst together out of …
