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New Left And New Deal

The explanation is complicated. But at the risk of over-simplification one can say that Herbert Hoover has been proved right and FOR wrong, in the sense that the evils which the......

United States

The new Establishment PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE The most interesting aspect of contemporary Washington to a visiting Englishman—and more particularly to a visiting English Tory —is......

A New Class Emerges

The contemporary form of muck-raking is designed to show up the incompetence and arrogance of Federal welfare programmes: to expose the dismal contrast between their aims and......

Featherbedding An Elite

And so indeed they have. The forty-year war against poverty, in the course of which Federal government has been vastly expan- ded, and the knowledge industry—universit- ies and......