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BOOKS Always playing to the audience REAGAN'S AMERICA INNOCENTS AT HOME Garry Wills Doubkday, $19.95, 388 pp. William V. Shannon In the seventh year of Ronald Reagan's reign, as his...

The Triumph of Politics/The Real David Stockman (May 1986)

Books: THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE DAVID STOCKMAN'S account of his THE TRIUMPH OF POLITICS divinity student, ex-congressional aide, four and one-half...

If not nuclear deterrence? (August 1982)

WILLIAM V. SHANNON If not nuclear deterrence, then a conventional one? THE FIRST DRAFT of the bishops' pastoral letter on peace and war is an attractive document if only for its unremitting effort...

The Kennedy Imprisonment (May 1982)

Books: PERSPECTIVES ON POWER THE KENNEDY IMPRISONMENT A MEDITATION ON POWER Garry Wilis Little-Brown, $14.95, 301 pp. William V. Shannon Garry wills is a highly intelligent and erudite writer...

Robert Kennedy and His Times (February 1979)

devoted more of his energies to prayer (which would make a hefty book) alluded complex than the homogeneous commu- and solitude. Despite this contemplative to in the beginning of...

AFTER VIETNAM, WHAT? (March 1969)

WILLIAM PFAFF WILLIAM V. SHANNON JEREMY J . STONE CARL OGLESBY WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS STANLEY HOFFMANN AFTER VIETNAM, WHAT? William P f a f f 'Like i m p e r i a l Germany, we a r e t o n e...

RICHARD NIXON'S RETURN (March 1968)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • NATIONAL AFFAIRS RICHARD NIXON'S RETURN Can Richard Nixon be stopped? Unless New Hampshire's Republican voters have a surprise in the making in their primary on March...

VIET CONG ESCALATION (February 1968)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS VIET CONG ESCALATION The Viet Cong raids in the South Vietnamese cities may mark a major turn in the war. The raids should have been foreseen and their effect discounted in...

STRATEGY AND MORALITY (January 1968)

Now, starting from these premises, one has to ask what constitutes a compromise? It would be a return to the situation that prevailed from 1954, when the country was divided at the Geneva...

POSTSCRIPT TO A LETTER (January 1968)

Cesar Chavez' agricultural union—but none of them is likely to leave the AFL-CIO • with him, because with Lyndon Johnson on his side Meany wields the kind of weapon that can make or break union...

THE CASE FOR THE WAR (December 1967)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE CASE FOR THE WAR Although I am in disagreement with Commonweal's editorial position on the Vietnam War, I respect that position because of its...

STILL TIME FOR POLITICS (November 1967)

Yet I have not done this, and there's the rub. By a swift and irrational action, role and theology are left suspended, and a lot of people with them. Is this good? How is one to know? It seems a...

THE SURTAX SCRIMMAGE (October 1967)

the firm grip of Representative Wilbur Mills, a Harvard-educated small town lawyer and Arkansas Democrat who is the canny, close-mouthed chairman of the House Ways and Means...

REVOLUTION OR SLAVE DESPAIR? (September 1967)

bers, many of them clergy, sought to reopen a house, become a better place in which to live, will be needed deemed still adequate for occupancy, after it had been to see it...

FU'LBRIGHT'S GUERRILLA WAR: (September 1967)

Msgr. Hiissler picked up a small rock from his desk difference does one's confession or nationality make and handed it to me. "Do you know where this is from?" where Christian love is...

THE INCREDIBLE SST: (July 1967)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE INCREDIBLE SST The continued progress of the SST, the supersonic up 90...

JOHNSON AFTER GLASSBORO: (July 1967)

senting the Commission's reading of the Coleman study. has declared in favor of parent advisory councils in the The best the Commission could muster was a show of ...

FUTILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: (June 1967)

to the people," Dapper said that if elected, "the first her prominence, though perhaps not her votes. She is no thing I will do is to release Mr. Logue and all his friends longer chairman of...

TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL (June 1967)

erally succeeded in avoiding such confrontations is what the consensus theories are really all about. Perhaps the next chapter of U.S. history will be a new and unlovely departure. OUR FREE...

THE POLITICS OF WAR (May 1967)

heart. A drive which will bring in a negligible amount of dues, and from which no profit will ever be made ranks with mother love as a symbol of selflessness, and is bound to raise the union...

THE SPLIT IN LABOR (February 1967)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE SPLIT IN LABOR The widening rift between Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers and George Meany, the President of the AFL-CIO, freshly complicates the already...

THE NEW HOUSE (February 1967)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE NEW BOUSE "The vacation is over and we're back living with the mother-in-law." According to one young House Democrat, this domestic metaphor sums up his mood and that of...

LBJ-'NEAR GREAT' (January 1967)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS LBJ—WEAR GREAT9 As the old year ends, President Johnson is on the defensive. His party suffered a serious defeat in the November election. His own popularity in the public...

THE VIETNAM ELECTION (December 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE VIETNAM ELECTION The election confirmed the worst fears of the Demo- seats, this, too, was more severe than the usual ebb and crats. Instead of losing 20 to 30 seats in...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (November 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH The publication of several recent books on the assassination of PresidentKennedy has evoked numerous suggestions that a new panel of inquiry be appointed to...

THE SENATE RACES (November 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE SENATE RACES The Senate campaigns around the country suggest that the issues everyone talks about—Vietnam, white backlash, inflation—do not matter much and that what...

SOUTHERN POLITICS (October 1966)

South rests on the prospect that eventually the coalition of most Negroes and most low-income whites which seemed imminent in the 1890s will at last be achieved. Economics would then replace...

THE OUTSIDER'S REPORT (October 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE OUTSIDER'S REPORT Since the political campaign is now well underway, it is important that we bring you an up-to-the-minute edition of our Special Political Almanac based on...

THE NATIONAL MOOD: (September 1966)

the nervous neighbors back away from a feverish associate: the Japanese Communists take their distance; North Korea declares its independence; Hanoi orders its officials not to emulate the...

F.D.R. JR.-THE LAST RACE (September 1966)

witnesses, just a bit too good. It got the testimony it wanted, but it had to pay an unexpectedly high price for the service. And that may have proved its undoing. Far from helping along the...

THE VANISHING RAILROADS (August 1966)

TIlE _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 NATIONAL AFFAIRS VA NIS IIlNG RA ILL R OA D S Passenger service on railroads over long distances is in danger of disappearing in the eastern half of...

THE END OF JOHNSON'S CONGRESS? (July 1966)

the Rumanians have taken the lead in proposing a withdrawal of Russian and American military forces from the center of Europe. French diplomacy, by no means limited to de Gaulle's trip to...

A Dam Site (June 1966)

openly cooperated with intellectual and working-class protests against specific features of the Franco regime. A new boldness was involved, however, when the Capuchin fathers sheltered a meeting...

TEXAS SOJOURN (May 1966)

got jittery, according to the news stories, and before anybody knew it, six Vietnamese lay dead on one of the big main streets. Another 21 Vietnamese and eight Americans were wounded. It...

The Third Strike (May 1966)

presence of members of the opposite sex may have a point; the dating rat-race in many coeducational colleges is a fearsome presence. So, too, some women educators probably have a good grasp of (a...

A Shortage of Liberals (April 1966)

comments at a news conference in Cambodia-Smith said the Vietnam war is of no interest to the U.S., McClure claimed that the Viet Cong represent the people of South Vietnam. Since then, neither...

BOB KENNEDY'S FUTURE (March 1966)

(Feb. 25), as quoted by I. F. Stone, should resurrect Stalin's intellectual henchman, Andrei Zhdanov, as "a true son of the people." It means that the issue is still alive and, regardless of the...

HUMPHREY AND 1972 (March 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS HUMPHREY AND 1972 There is a myth that no one seeks the Vice Presidency. The occupants of that office are supposed to be chosen by accident or in a fit of absence of mind. The...

A POLITICAL ALMANAC FOR '66 (January 1966)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS A POLITICAL ALMAJVAC FOR 966 JANUARY: The White House announces a staff shakeup. In as replacement for French chef Rene Verdon goes Bill Moyers — but only for the most...

IN-FIGHTING AMONG THE OUTS (December 1965)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS IN-FIGHTING AMONG THE OUTS The Republican Party may have the appearance of a corpse, but lively battles are being waged around the nation for its possession. The most important...

CRISIS OF THE CITIES (December 1965)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS CRISIS OF THE CITIES The dramatic election of John V. Lindsay as Mayor of New York has called national attention to the crisis through which most American cities are now...

LAST DAYS OF CONGRESS (November 1965)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS LAST DA YS OF CONGRESS At the end, a great Congress whimpered its way into history. The last weeks of the session were taken up with the disposal of various pieces of political...

POINT OF NO RETURN (August 1965)

These might all be considered matters of discomfort, but nothing very serious. Perhaps so, but we are more inclined to agree with Father H. A. Reinhold. In the lead article of this issue, he...

STEVENSON THE POLITICIAN (August 1965)

the Johnson Administration's housing bill. It is an important advance, the kind that used to be considered impossible before the President began his series of astonishing successes in domestic...

SUPERSONIC QUESTION MARK (July 1965)

by the same nurse that supplies hospital identity tags. The advantages of this plan would be many. A bright high-school graduate could begin post-graduate college work right away, without the...

THE MOOD OF CONGRESS (July 1965)

O 0 0 0 O0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 WASHINGTON REPORT THE MOOD OF CONGRESS The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration this session has offered a glimpse of one of the rarest of Congressional...

EXCISING THE POOR (June 1965)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WASHINGTON REPORT EXCISING THE POOR Of all the economic interests that exert their strength upon the national political scene, the automobile industry is...

DEATH OF A LIBERAL (June 1965)

new law dismantling the quota system and incorporating the current exceptions may be hailed as a real advance, though it would constitute no more than a minor rearrangement of current policies....

THE MARINES HAVE LANDED (May 1965)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Marines Have Landed Events in the Dominican Republic, which broke with astonishing swiftness, have cruelly exposed the intellectual poverty of the Johnson...

A WORD TO MY CRITICS (May 1965)

A 0 _9 0 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 WASHINGTON REPORT WORD TO MY CRITICS I had not intended to write so soon again about Vietnam, but letters from readers accusing me of everything from...

ALLIANCE IMMOBILIZED (April 1965)

_9 0 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WASHINGTON REPORT ALLIANCE IMMOBILIZED Although the crisis in Vietnam preoccupies the energies of the policyrnakers and the foreign affairs interest of the...

THE JOHNSON OVERSELL (March 1965)

strong publication record; the tendency among students themselves to see their undergraduate work only as a means of preparing for more specialized training; the impersonality of many large...

THE PRICE OF RETREAT (March 1965)

them meal chits instead of money, and, more importantly, in the substantive design of the program. The poor were put on display at the conference. Their appearance was designed to be the smash...

THE DAM LESSON (February 1965)

with the result that the Christian Democratic left as well as the personal followers of ex-premier Amintore Fanfani refused to support the party's official candidate. The consequent deadlock reached...

JOHNSON AND CHINA (February 1965)

will be due more to the lower productivity of their new help than to the higher wage rate. What they miss is the abundant supply of docile, cheap and efficient Mexican labor which they utilized so...

MODEST REFORMS: (January 1965)

for their own nuclear development—in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Even the unwarlike Mr. Shashi bears witness to the discussion now taking place in the country of Gandhi and Nehru when...

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON (January 1965)

express either a naive optimism about the will-to-reform of military regimes or a desire to barter away constitutional principles for a little pro-American peace and quiet. The character of the...

Goldwater for Therapy (October 1964)

Moreover, one might guess, the relative ignorance among Catholics of Holy Scripture undoubtedly helped to encourage the flights of subjective fancy which have surrounded much popular Marian...

Report from Washington (September 1964)

to conceal the moral issues behind a screen of pious words. The unwillingness of CORE to go along with the moratorium, however, may have its good side. It will indicate that the Democratic Party had...

Johnson Maneuvers (September 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT Johnson THE NOMINATION of Senator Goldwater has had a profound influence on the Washington scene. In small ways and large, the Johnson Administration has shifted markedly to...

Quantitative Liberalism (July 1964)

End of Bobby Baker? THE REPUBLICAN minority on the Senate Rules Committee complains that the Democratic majority refused to call certain key witnesses in the Bobby Baker case and refused to pursue...

A Do-Something Congress? (July 1964)

individual diocese or archdiocese is of concern only to those who live there. Traditionally a bishop from outside a diocese or archdiocese does not criticize the policy of the local Ordinary. In the...

The Week That Will Be (June 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Week That Will Be HAVING HEARD the flawless coverage by the television networks of the Republican primaries, we can well foresee the way it will go on election night next...

Comeback for Inflation? (June 1964)

Businessmen rarely absorb higher labor costs. If they possibly can, they pass them on to the public in the form of higher prices. It will not matter that their economists may point out to them—in...

Chances for the Prayer Amendment (May 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT Chances for the Prayer Amendment THE PROSPECTS for passage of a constitutional amendment permitting prayers and Bible-reading in the public schools are better than they deserve...

The Voice of the Churches (May 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Voice of the Churches "IN FORMER years, the role of religious groups was the filibuster is broken and a civil rights bill, unweakened that of passive spectators,...

Witness for Foreign Aid (May 1964)

For Logicians Only WE HAVE a small complaint which we would like to direct at those of our readers who are professional logicians. Why is it that nothing is said in your textbooks about what...

New Myths for Old (April 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT New Myths for Old "IN THE EYES of his admirers (and they form a multitude in Washington) he is the closest thing to a public philosopher in Congress, a man who ranges beyond...

New Approach to Latin America? (April 1964)

New Approach to Latin America? NO PROJECT was closer to President Kennedy's heart than the Alliance for Progress in Latin America, which he initiated three years ago this month. At the time of his...

The G.O.P. in '64 (January 1964)

The G.O.P. in '64 AS 1964 BEGINS, the Republican Party is in bad shape, but its hopes are reviving. Before the death of President Kennedy, the Republican Presidential nomination had not appeared...

Government and Art (August 1963)

issued by Cardinal Spellrnan. "The great Christian and American principle of equality," he wrote re-cently, "must be reduced to action in local circum- stances and in specific ways." Precisely here...

Showdown on Civil Rights (July 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT Showdown on Civil Rights SEVERAL WEEKS hence, as the climax of a long, hot summer, there will occur one of the saddest spectacles of our political life: a Southern filibuster...

Rockefeller: Down But Not Out (June 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT Rockefeller: Down But Not Out GOVERNOR NELSON Rockefeller was once asked why he chose to make his career in public life as a Republican, since he served successfully in the...

Progress on the Home Front (June 1963)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Mr. Lilienthal's Worries EVERY ONCE in a while it seems as if everyone is talking about one particular speech or article. More often than not, this is not because the item in...

The Crisis in Birmingham (May 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Crisis in Birmingham AS THIS IS written, Washington waits uneasily for further developments in Birmingham, Alabama, after the truce in the racial crisis there degenerated...

Opinion at the Grass-Roots (May 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT Opinion at the Grass-Roots REPORTERS who interviewed Congressmen returning from their home districts after the recent Easter recess received almost uniformly the same general...

The Pitfalls of Publicity (April 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Pitfalls THE STRUGGLE between Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and the Senate Investigating Subcommittee over the TFX contract demonstrates that pitiless publicity...

Setback for Foreign Aid (April 1963)

employment rate is above six per cent. According to Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, the "groups most seriously affected" are the unskilled, young people, Negroes and older people. Swelled by an...

Dean Rusk and the President (March 1963)

dal. What each Christian can do is to commit him- self by some personal action to alleviate world hun- ger. The very least he can do is purchase and use the stamps commemorating the world freedom...

The Problems of Success (March 1963)

still there has been a noticeable and potentially dangerous silence as to the course the United States intends to take in any eventualities that may arise out of the Cuban situation. Ignorance of...

Cuba and the Administration (March 1963)

oil has stemmed from precisely that part of its work. To go one step further, it appears that most Catholics (and many interested non-Catholics) want a vital renewal in the Church; hence, it...

Paradise Lost in the Senate (February 1963)

was sweeping the country. As a minority still not were good reasons for this: the forces of nativism altogether welcome, Catholics were engaged in the seemed a permanent part of...

The New What? (February 1963)

ante of the Holy Spirit. It fails to make clear just ty and disloyalty, and a woeful destruction of care- what the Church itself can or should do to bring fully tailored public...

More of the Same (December 1956)

POLITICAL PROSPECTS More of the Same WILLIAM V. SHANNON IT IS the custom of political observers to interpret the outcome of a national election as a significant turning point in the life of the...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1956)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...

Mirror of Politics (August 1956)

THE VICE PRESIDENCY Mirror of Politics WILLIAM V. SHANNON POLITICS holds a mirror up to life. Politicians, like the inhabitants of Plato's cave, respond to the images and the reflections, often...

The Power of the Senate (May 1956)

The Power of the Senate "BY ITS NATURE THE SENATE IS NOT PROPERLY CONSTITUTED TO FRAME A NATIONAL PROGRAM" WILLIAM V. SHANNON I N THE ten years since the war, the United States Senate as an...

Books (April 1956)

BOOKS A Cunning and Curious Dramatization THE MALEFACTORS. By Caroline Gordon. Harcourt. $3.95 By JOHN W. SIMONS M ISS Caroline Gordon, whose novels and short stories have always been...

The Eisenhower Paradox (March 1956)

FROM WASHINGTON The Eisenhower Paradox WILLIAM V. SHANNON I T IS an odd paradox that Mr. Eisenhower appears to be at a pinnacle of personal popularity at a time when his Administration is...

Book Reviews (December 1955)

BOOKS The Fruitful Ambiguity in Newman's Thought THE IMPERIAL INTELLECT" A STUDY OF NEWMAN'S EDUCATIONAL IDEAL. A. Dwight Culler. Yale University Press. $5. By FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN THE...

The Decisive Mr. Truman (December 1955)

TEN YEARS LATER The Decisive Mr. Truman WILLIAM V. SHANNON THE natural tendency of the historian, it has been said, is to set a seal of approval on the past. Nowhere is this temptation to give...

The Geneva Illusion (November 1955)

The Geneva Illusion "IF IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE TO GO THERE, IT WAS AT LEAST A MISTAKE TO GO THERE AND TALK IN THE DREAMLIKE LANGUAGE OF THE RUSSIANS" WILLIAM V. SHANNON I T is becoming...

The New Conservatism (December 1954)

THEORY AND PRACTICE The New Conservatism WILLIAM V. SHANNON EVENTS since the second world war have unexpectedly restored conservatism to high intellectual fashion. The thrust of Soviet...

Critics' Choice for Christmas (December 1954)

Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...

Mystique of the Right (October 1954)

Mystique of the Right THE CORE OF THE CONSERVATIVE MYTH IS THE BELIEF IN THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF STABILITY. WILLIAM V. SHANNON p EGUY has written that all things begin in mystique...

The Stakes in Asia (August 1954)

The Stakes in Asia THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NATIONAL DEBATE ON HOW MUCH WE ARE WILLING TO PAY TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR THE ORIENT. WILLIAM V. SHANNON M ENDES,FRANCE'S aphorism "to govern is...

The Essential Teddy Roosevelt (June 1954)

BOOKS The Essential Teddy Roosevelt WILLIAM V. SHANNON T HE career of Theodore Roosevelt is of continuing interest, for he was the first modern president. Lincoln has the contemporaneity of...

McCarthy and His Friends (April 1954)

BOOKS McCarthy and His Friends WILLIAM V. SHANNON S Lord Acton once said, first comes the tyrant with a sword and then the historian with a sponge. In the case of Senator McCarthy,...

Shannon, William Y.

Shapiro, Harvey D.

Sharkey, John

Sharp, John K.

SHARP, REV. J. L.

Shaughhessy, Gerald

Shaughnessy, Gerald

Shaw, G.Howland

Shaw, James Gerard

Shaw, Kurt

Shaw, Roger

Shaw, Russell