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Galbraith elaborates on the illogical practices stemming from this futile superpower rivalry in two other essays. "The Constraints of the Historical Process," which looks at economic aid, and "The Military Nexus," which covers military aid. Both of these chapters argue that United States and Soviet Union assistance to the poorer...
All this politicking seems wearyingly premature, like Christmas decorations in July. It is no consolation that both Jimmy Carter and George McGovern officially began their long-shot bids even earlier. Candidates used to attract little press attention at this point in the campaign and thus could test themes and sharpen...
In fact, the sphere of the report is unapologetically the real world. To those under investigation the commission was, in effect, putting the question "Who are you kidding?" And the question was not wholly rhetorical. In matters of guilt and innocence the gray area is often the largest, and this...
Yet not all the fun was clumsy. Examining Chesterton's fiction, Jorge Luis Borges praised "one of the finest writers of our time," possessed with "fortunate invention . . . visual imagination and rhetorical virtues." Lionel Trilling maintained that Chesterton was "a far greater critic than his present reputation might suggest." And...
Those kind of off-the-cuff remarks belie the President's contention that he is being unfairly chastised. They also constitute a direct insult to people who are forced to live without jobs, food, or hope. After all, Reagan put his hand on a Bible in 1981 and swore to...