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DETERRENCE--the notion that we must build up our nuclear stockpile in order to confront potential Soviet first-strikers with the certainty of their own annihilation--is the rationalization for Reagan's program, as it has been for each previous step-up in the arms race. As Defense Secretary Caspar...
The problem with this and all other arguments for deterrence is its assumption that nuclear missiles do no harm as long as they stay in their silos. But as recent studies of the arms race's psychological impact suggest, the very existence of nuclear weapons and the prospects of their...
FASHION SELDOM admits of any studied explanation. Wavelike, trends rise, crest, fall and rise again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true...
MUCH OF THE neoliberal program, of course, is not new. It traces its roots to the Great Society and New Deal proposals that defined an historical mission for the Democratic party--and which, carried to wasteful extremes, cost the Democrats their grip on the national government in 1980. But in...
While the nation's army of state and local officials, as well as less personally involved political scientists and economists, examined the sketchy outlines of Ronald Reagan's New Federalism last week, few quarreled with the President's professed goals. Many had long joined his call for...