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At the Republican Convention, fundamentalist ministers were conspicuous. There was the letter by Senator Laxalt, suggesting that God wants Americans to vote Republican and that the Christian thing to do is re-elect Ronald Reagan. The President himself suggested as much. It all amounts to saying that what is desirable...
During his first stint for Time Inc., as a writer for FORTUNE, Agee was assigned a story that let him weld his overheated rhetoric to a social theme: the lives of '30s sharecroppers in the South, with photographs by Walker Evans. Agee later appraised his own work as "a...
At Harvard, as at many other schools, the administration seemed to lose its way. Early in the decade Pusey had made statements lauding what he saw as a new burst of student activism, but he could hardly have expected the upheavals that the next few years would bring. Where Harvard...
Those who reject capitalism often err in discarding insights of its theory, and in this case social critics mistakenly ignore the simple fact that people act largely out of self-interest. It is not more true today than 20 years ago. It is not too surprisingly, the guiding principle for...
"I've been working in Cambridge for six years and, you know, to be working in this town and not be going to school is almost sinful," he joked.