WilliamA Close Election Schneider, in National Journal (Oct. 29,
1983), 1730 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
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The presidential election season is upon us again, and given the fates of recent incumbents-Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, who lost to Ronald Reagan-it would be premature to bet on a Reagan victory.
Indeed, reports Schneider, an American Enterprise Institute political scientist, the race now looks like a toss-up. The much-heralded "new Republican majority" that...
Mark Greenbera and Rachel Flick. in
Commissions Journal of ~ontem~orary
Studies (Fall1983), Transaction Periodicals Consor- tium, Dept. 541, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
A new type of presidentially appointed commission is taking over jobs that America's top elected officials should be doing, and the change is symptomatic of a malfunction in the U.S. political system. So argue Greenberg and Flick, Senate and White House aides, respectively.
The first presidential commission...
Sheldon S. Wolin,
in democracy (Fall 1983), 43 West 61st St., Grassroo ts ? New York, N.Y. 10023.
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the wast." wrote Thomas Jefferson, voicing the optimism that would fuel liberal- ism in America for most of this nation's history. The banner of "pro- gress," however, has been seized conservatives, writes Wolin, a Princeton political scientist.
While Ronald Reagan cheers up his countrymen with visions of a boom- ing...
the end of the 19th century, Wolin says, political "liberation" had been achieved in the West (with the exception of blacks and a few other "anomalies") and enshrined in new constitutions, legislatures, and civil liberties. Progress gradually came to mean just scientific and economic advance; demands for more political rights (e.g., "participatory democracy") were viewed as threats to material progress.
Thus, the idea of "progress" embraced present-day conservatives,...
1838, bitter feuds had pulled them apart.
Nicaragua has since suffered internal strife under a succession of dictators, Harrison says, while democratic Costa Rica has fared rela- tively well. One reason: Costa Rica was so poor that Spanish coloniz- ers never fully established the oppressive oligarchical plantation system that dominated Nicaragua.
Frequent direct U.S. intervention in Nicaragua (most recently, the presence of U.S. Marines between 1912 and 1933) stirred strong anti- Yanqui sentiment.
Today,...
Richard L. Garwin, in Interna-tional security (Fall 1983), The MIT Press Submarines (Journals), 28 Carleton St., Cambridge. Mass. 02142; "The Invisible Force" John Tierney, in Science 83 (Nov. 1983),
P.O. Box 10790, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Two legs of the U.S. strategic "triad"-land-based ICBMs and B-52 bombers-are shakier today than they once were. But the 34 U.S. Posei- don and Trident submarines will remain a virtually invulnerable deter- rent for a long time to come.
While...
Richard L. Garwin, in Interna-tional security (Fall 1983), The MIT Press Submarines (Journals), 28 Carleton St., Cambridge. Mass. 02142; "The Invisible Force" John Tierney, in Science 83 (Nov. 1983),
P.O. Box 10790, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Two legs of the U.S. strategic "triad"-land-based ICBMs and B-52 bombers-are shakier today than they once were. But the 34 U.S. Posei- don and Trident submarines will remain a virtually invulnerable deter- rent for a long time to come.
While...
"great captains," and fighting "was very much an art." Hence, many reformers advocate a "maneuver" strategy, based on simple but reli- able weapons, small but agile forces, and, above all, the creative genius of field commanders.
Modern armies are so large and face each other across such broad fronts that simply keeping them supplied and moving requires bureau- cratic coordination. The Prussians pioneered military bureaucracy with the creation of a general staff in...
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ECONOMICS, LABOR, & BUSINESS
imports equaled only 10 percent of the nation's gross national prod- uct. But today, up to 70 percent of all U.S. manufactured goods- computers, tractors, and steel-face competition from abroad. And 17 percent of the nation's total industrial and agricultural output is destined for foreign markets.
Classical free-trade doctrine, with its stress on assuring that consum- ers have access to the cheapest wares in the world, made sense when in- ternational c...
America's most politically active corporations and trade associations. The national industrial policy agency (modeled on Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry) that Reich favors would surely also be influenced politics, but wouldn't it make more sense, he asks, to rationalize America's industrial policy?
"Industrial Policy: A Dissent" by CharlesIf It Ain't Broke, L. Schultze, in The Brookings Review (Fall Don't Fix It 1983), 1775 ~assachusetts Ave. N.W.,
Washington, D.C....