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...Democratic budget, to be offered as an alternative to whatever Ronald Reagan proposes for fiscal 1987. It will contain some spending cuts, but also a higher corporate minimum tax and higher rates on upper-income individuals than are proposed in the current tax-reform bill. To reduce budget deficits, says Hart, "there will have to be additional revenue. Anybody who tells the truth in Washington will tell you that...
Niebuhr's most important achievement was countering what he considered the naiveté of activist Protestant liberals by rediscovering sin. In their viewpoint, humanity was good by nature, awaiting perfection through social reform and education. Although Niebuhr was thoroughly a modernist in theology and did not believe in the literal truth of Scripture, he found the doctrine of the Fall--humanity's lapse from its original moral purity--to be a telling myth. The race, he asserted, is ineradicably given to self-deception, and in the real world the search for moral righteousness is filled with ambiguity. His approach became known...
This kind of talk is rhetorical emptiness at its most pristine. Why does Hart do it? It's not as if he has nothing to say. He has a host of important ideas. Whether or not they are new is irrelevant. A good idea is a good idea: military reform, national service, a notion of sacrificial patriotism, as opposed to the superficial I-Love-Miss-Liberty kind now in vogue. (Though, unfortunately, even here Hart cannot resist defining patriotism as "more than slogans celebrating past achievements. It's an opportunity to draw a blueprint for our future...
Your analysis of the economic reform being introduced in China under Deng Xiaoping was excellent. It would have been even more interesting had you mentioned that the concept of making all land common property and paying rent to the state for its use under a "contract system," with surplus production going to the free market, is a direct application of the theory published by the American writer Henry George in Progress and Poverty, in 1879. The parallel is so close I wonder whether Deng has the book in his library. Douglas Denby, President John Cabot International College Rome...
...Maimonides had been alive for his 850th birthday celebration in Paris last December [RELIGION, Dec.23], he would have been startled by the participants, by TIME's comments and by the party itself. After all, what role do Reform and Conservative rabbis play at a Maimonides memorial? They have jettisoned most if not all of his 13 Articles of Faith. Deny even one, says Maimonides, and you deny Judaism. Are they the ones to wish him a happy birthday? Then there is Kuwaiti Professor Abderrahmane Badawi, who embraces Maimonides as an Arab philosopher. But Maimonides, while not branding Islam as idolatry...