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Democratic capitalism embodies three elements: a free-market economy, a political system based on individual rights, and a moral pluralism that respects different cultural goals and beliefs. Such social philosophers as Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) and Daniel Bell (The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism) have contended that these elements are often in conflict, and that a liberal society must balance the competing forces of democracy, economic freedom and social justice. Not so, answers Novak. Capitalism and democracy complement one another. They are inevitable outgrowths of the same moral tradition, and it is no accident that...
Like its predecessor Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior is set in the postnuclear future. The world has been totaled; civilization is a white-line junkyard; the only amenity is staying alive. Where there was high culture, now there is only car culture. In one of the film's first images, an automobile breaks angrily through one side of the truck that has been holding it; this is the caesarean birth of the new mutant marauders. They race across the scarred landscape on stripped-down motorcycles, killing for fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h...
Syndicated Columnist Max Lerner, in a sternly critical review in a stronghold of Democratic liberalism, the New Republic, complains that Schell's logic could be used to justify "certain surrender [through] unilateral disarmament by the West." The New York Times editorial page, another traditionally liberal forum, has faulted Schell for utopianism. "The rest of us," the paper notes, "are left in the real world, stuck with the only available alternative to catastrophe. Deterrence it will have to be." Times Book Critic John Leonard, a one-time liberal activist on issues ranging from the Viet Nam War to the Helsinki...
...Floating Lightbulb is the story of the Pollacks, a struggling family on the outskirts of everything in 1945 Brooklyn. Max is a small-time numbers runner and waiter supporting a mistress he can't afford, in debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge...
...where "any man worthy of the name of artist must exact the recognition of his merit." Paris took young De Chirico, as it took young Chagall, and turned him from a naive provincial fabulist into a major painter. His "metaphysical" constructions, such as The Jewish Angel, 1916, certainly influenced Max Ernst. Just as certainly, they came out of the cubist sculpture De Chirico saw all over the Paris studios after 1912. De Chirico is often said to have used Renaissance space in his pictures, but, as Rubin points out, this is a myth. Chirican perspective was not meant...