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Grant Wood at the Whitney: afresh look at an American icon...
...Reich's suggestions are rooted in reality, and he is scrupulous about offering contingency plans. But throughout the book the reader is left with the feeling that the vision's cornerstone--that national consensus--will never come to pass. Without a mandate to clear the board and start afresh, that evil word in the world of economic policy, politics, will rear its nasty partisan head. With a theory that depends so much on cooperation and compromise, one side holding back could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some...
...97th Congress blew a chance to stem the tide by failing to pass the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which combined amnesty for illegal aliens who have escaped detection so far with a system of fines on employers who knowingly hire illegal entrants in the future. The new Congress must start afresh. It will be hampered by the same troubles that blocked the bill last year. To the great majority of Americans the benefits of easing the immigration crisis would be indirect and hard to measure. Meanwhile the bill offends a wide variety of special interests: businessmen fearful of fines; farmers...
...analogy is really the Viet Nam fallacy. It is fallacious not just in the objective difference between the two situations, but in the way that indulgence of a false analogy can skew judgment. In general, foreign policy is better served by a conscious attempt to analyze each situation afresh, rather than by the wisdom of hindsight (which, of course, is really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there...
...this show-admirably curated by Art Historians Richard Ormond, Robin Hamlyn and Joseph Rishel-soon makes clear that Landseer was more than a "mere" sentimentalist. To see him after such long disfavor is to see him afresh, and his affinities with other artists now seem more striking than his provincialism. Some of his hunt scenes have a positively Rubenesque wallop and energy, and his feeling for "sublime" landscape-the misty crags and glens of the Highlands-connects him to northern European romanticism, in particular to Caspar David Friedrich. When he let his sense of nature as a ground of elemental...