What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative? A Symposium

by Lionel Abel, Jervis Anderson, William Barrett, David T. Bazelon, Pearl K. Bell, Ronald Berman, Norman Birnbaum, Joseph W. Bishop, Midge Decter, Edward Jay Epstein, Charles Frankel, Carl Gershman, Nathan Glazer, Eric F. Goldman, Walter Goodman, Sidney Hook, H. Stuart Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Lekachman, Carey McWilliams, Martin Mayer, Michael Novak, William Phillips, Earl Raab, Diane Ravitch, Harold Rosenberg, Richard H. Rovere, Bayard Rustin, Thomas Sowell, Roger Starr, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul H. Weaver, James Q. Wilson, Peter P. Witonski, C. Vann Woodward and Dennis H. Wrong

Commentary recently asked a group of 64 intellectuals: Are you satisfied with the way terms like liberal and conservative, or…

The Poverty of Affluence

by Robert Lekachman

If we are so rich, why do we feel so poor? As it concerns the fifth or so of Americans…

The Fiscal Revolution in America, by Herbert Stein; Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy, by Milton Friedman and Walter W. Heller

by Robert Lekachman

For American Keynesians February 1964 was a month to remember. After more than a year of haggling, Congress finally enacted…

Nixon’s Program

by Robert Lekachman

Superficially the initial months of the Nixon administration can be interpreted as something of a relief from the exaggerated fears…

Children, Poverty, and Family Allowances, by James C. Vadakin

by Robert Lekachman

Professor Vadakin's temperate and well-documented case for cash allowances to children as an anti-poverty measure appears just at the outset…

The Committee, by Walter Goodman

by Robert Lekachman

AS A CHRONICLE Of the threedecade history of the House Un-American Activities Committee, this long book is unflaggingly interesting, frequently…

Most Notorious Victory, by Ben B. Seligman

by Robert Lekachman

Death of a Slogan-The Great Society 1967

by Robert Lekachman

A viable political consensus rests upon an expectation of benefits by all members of the coalition.

The Automation Report

by Robert Lekachman

As a public document, the Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress possesses rare virtue.

Our Depleted Society, by Seymour Melman

by Robert Lekachman

As his previous writings document, Seymour Melman is no partisan of the military path to prosperity.

Johnson So Far: I: The Great Society

by Robert Lekachman

Lyndon B. Johnson is without question more lovingly immersed in domestic issues, and more effective in getting his programs through…

Economic Growth and Employment Opportunities for Minorities, by Dale L. Hiestand

by Robert Lekachman

Everybody seems to know the general course of 20th-century employment opportunities for Negroes in America. Slow but steady progress into…