Category: Editorials

both at home and abroad. The stakesnare too high to trust the outcome tonuncontrollable events in other nationsnor to a global “invisible hand.” Competitionnproduces winners and losers.nThose who do not play to win willnlose.nPhillips provides a solid overview ofnthe “neomercantilist” policies pursuednby the expanding Asian economies lednby Japan and b’ the Europeans. Foreignnnations commonly subsidize...

Walzer and William Ryan have assertednthe primacy of equality of economicnresults, and Kuttner takes that asnsufficient. Kuttner writes merely tonreassure his reader that other statesnhave combined more equal distributionnof wealth with relative prosperitynin a democratic order. He seems confidentnthat, once comparative economicsnprovides the evidence that it couldnbe done elsewhere, we will leap intonaction to achieve...

that new Administrations iiave nonmore than a short time to enact majornchanges in law and public policy, butnalso that even if these are made withinnthe brief favorable period, they arenunlikely to have a permanent effectnunless they reflect or produce a seanchange in public opinion.nIt follows, according to this argument,nthat in modern democracies,nsimply changing the rulers...

would like to believe. But then, Americansnare the only people naive enoughnto expect newcomers to be completelynsatisfied and at home. In a series ofnwell-drawn portraits of the experiencesnof Soviet refugees, Ripp, whose ownnbackground gives him a certain insidernstatus among them, makes the ambivalencenclear. One does not alter overnightna lifetime habit of suspicion andnresistance painfully formed...

RENASCENCEn”A New Mimesis:nArt and Literature As An Imitation of Nature”nVol. 37, No. 3 Spring 1985nRenascence, a quarterly in its 37th year of publication, is a critical and scholarly journalnconcerned with the study of values in literature. The editorial perspective is Christian thoughtnand values without limitation to subject matter.nEditor: Joseph Schwartz, Professor of English, Marquette UniversitynThe...

tional amendment. Within such anframework, the pubhc must choosenspending reduction or tax increases.nBoth the supply-siders and the economynshould win that one.n”Although he is surely too serious-mindednan ideologue to have planned it that way,nMr. Roberts’s book yields a description ofnthe egos, power grabs and ambitions of thenpeople involved that turns “The Supply-nSide Revolution” into a kind...

A PRUDENT PROGRESSIVE by Leopold TynnandnThe year of the yuppie?nIt seems so, if you read Newsweek.nEvery poHtical season and every decadencan be characterized by the emergencenof some subclass: its very coalescenceninto a social phenomenonnattracts attention. Every year belongsnto this or that mobile or active sectionnof society and the circumstance thatnthe so-called yuppies (a sobriquet asngood...

Thefolknving is the text of Russell Kirk’s address at the 1984 Ingersoll Prizes Awards Banquet.nNa I ature imitates art: so Oscar Wilde instructs us. Whethernor not natural sunsets imitate Turner’s painted sunsets, surelynhuman nature is developed by human arts. “Art is man’snnature,” in Burke’s phrase: modeling ourselves upon the noblencreations of the great writer and...

order, Eliot reminded the 20th century.n”If you will not have God (and he isna jealous God) you should pay yournrespects to Hitler or Stalin,” Eliotnwrote in The Idea of a Christian Society.nEliot scandalized many because henwent all the way to “the awful daringnof a moment’s surrender”—that is,nsurrender to the divine.n”It is a tendency of creative...