Editorials
Correspondence 290 Editorials 29I 1980--with a little help from our friends 292 Labor's love lost: E.J. Dionne, Jr. 296 Life in the parks: Thomas Powers 297 Sticking to the story: John...
...They are at least on the Democratic party side, will be the same as the put there by candidates...
...to reform the welfare system and reduce unemployment...
...Although a few "I believe, it seems with a majority of my countrymen, that correspondents felt we might have to settle for Carter again, he Edward Kennedy would make a fine president...
...There were other promises as well:toreduce militaryspending by $5 to $7 billiona year...
...Contents Volume CVI, Number 10 THREE YEARS AGO Jimmy Carter, then known as Jimmy Who?, traveled the nation and promised us a government as good and compassionate anddecent as the American people...
...Mail resume/and samples of published work "I only hope that the present treaty between Egypt and (no phone, please) to: Commonweal, 232 Madison Ave., New Israel, particularly in itsPalestiniansphase, will demonstrate York, N.Y...
...Carter will assert that he kept candidates to run in the early primaries, of both parties if American troops out of war, and his Republican opposition possible...
...a shift of the economy from gluttonous in Vietnam...
...to makeAmerica the bread basket rather than the arms merchant of the world...
...There can be no doubt that the lines of the 1980 campaign, Issues don't enter American politics ghost-like...
...What are the key issues of the next two-to-ten years...
...Poetry: John Fandel Correspondents: Brian Wicker (Great Britain), Desmond Fisher (Dublin), Alain Woodrow (Paris) Staff: Linda F. Kayler, Harriette Balsky Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor Publisher: Edward S. Skillin Commonweal, A Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly Christmas-New Year's andJuly andAugust, by Commonweal Publishing Co., 232 Madi-son Ave., New York, N.Y...
...that 1948, itations...
...I share all his apprehensions...
...Now, in view of the dissatisfaction with his leadership Commonweal has written to a cross-section of our contributors and asked: Should President Carter be re-elected...
...MARY McGRORY loses on two counts: abandoning his ideals and flubbing his COLUMNIST pragmatic opportunities...
...It will Mo Udall and Nader himself...
...I have a feeling was in general described as "a hope quickly dashed, a man he would like to be in the White House, but simply cannot see who talked community, concern, trust, but who soon fell into his way togetting there...
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...and Democratic groups in Cleveland, St...
...that 1964 and Lyndon Johnson's landslide victorywere followed almost immediately by an escalation of the war of wealth and power...
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...public control of the energy industry...
...But in spite of the fact that most of the announced Republi- A n d a v o t e for B r o w n can candidates so far are as dismal a lot of retreads, pitchmen, lightweights, flakes, nasties and question marks as we have "After the experience of Carter, I doubt that the American seen in years, our own judgment is that we cannot afford to people are ripefor another Wendell Willkie type candidateand withdraw from the electoral contest...
...to radically revise the tax structure--a "disgrace to the human race...
...VICTOR FERKISS least time to form a "third force," a coalition of activist POLI'I;ICAL SCIENTIST, GEORGETOWN citizens who really believe in a democracy fueled by liberal ideals and a common understanding of the dignity of man-dignity that demands a meaningfuljob, healthcare, freedom to T h e D e m o c r a t s a n d p e a c e speak one's mind and develop one's talents to their fullest...
...Are there better ways of finding better candidates...
...We print excerpts from some answers on the followingpages...
...These are the issues Carter had a chance to ad- alternative candidate to Carter, will be especially powerful dress...
...foreign, $22...
...right-to-life" in the peaceful solution to international problems, whereas Demobroadest sense of that term, including the issues of capital cratic practices involved the military imposition of that peace punishment, disarmament, abortion, welfare and decent soon thereafter...
...HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS Nevertheless, a good numberof our correspondents, in spite of reservations about "the bridge, the car, and the cover-up," urged the election of Senator Kennedy as a man who could T h e K e n n e d y p o s s i b i l i t y restore the true ideals of the Democratic party...
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...Today, with some foreign policy accomplishments to his credit,Jimmy Carter, his stomach flattened by daily running and his hair newly parted on the left, has taken to the road again, this time to hang onto the presidency so narrowly won two-and-a-half years ago...
...As oneWashington writer told us, " . . . he of which is that he might be shot...
...among those vehemently opposed to a leadership for whom Democratic party politics ultimately requires military enP A R T - T I M E E D I T O R : Commonweal, a biweekly jour- gagement...
...But at the time, with the mud from Nixon's boots still soiling the White House rug, the promise of decency seemed almost enough...
...Now the rest of us must take up the cause...
...As a result, the mood, the pressure toselect an health care...
...There were quite a few groans--a gloomy conviction that we are entering a critical period in which the American" system," with the government so controlled by the interlockingpower of big business, the energy companies, the auto industryand the banks--all dominating the media and economic decision-making--can no longer respond to human needs...
...It will not be forgotten that in each of these consumerism toconserving our resources and providing secu- instances the Democratic party campaign was based on a rity to the society's weakest members...
...Our correspondents propose individuals like author will be compelled to claim that this is so, but that in this Michael Harrington, Representative Ronald Dellums, and process the world itself had been lost, that Americaninfluence Sargent Shriver for the Democrats...
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...Right now my support goes to JerryBrown who, while devious (what politician isn't), at leas time from May to November (1980), and we may find our editorial mind shifting in view of intervening events...
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...The "third force" needs to find Wilsonian slogan of 1916...
...Correspondence 290 Editorials 29I 1980--with a little help from our friends 292 Labor's love lost: E.J...
...The point would be toforce the certainly not be ignored that 1916 was followed by the Amerielectorate and the other candidates to face the real issues of can entrance into war in 1917...
...In this spirit Kirkpatrick Sale told the story of the man who got food poisoning every time he ate 1980--WITH A LITTLE mushrooms, but kept eating them, each time changing the color of the sauce...
...tax reform that will lead to a fairer distribution rean War...
...Thus, some argue, it is foolish to expect the 25 May 1979:291 electoral process to save us...
...one thinks, in addition, of had become a force without an effective deterrent...
...jobs for was followed by 1950 and American involvement in the Kominority youth (in 15 years, one out of every five 18-year-olds will be black...
...foreign, $39...
...305 The university press and the American mind: Jack Miles 306 Books The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: John Ahem 309 Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Sidney Callahan 3 I0 The Christian Tradition: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle 312 The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism,1958-1974: Ronald Modras 312 The George Eliot Letters/George Henry Lewes: Joseph Wiesenfarth 315 Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy: Jack Riemer 316 Staff Editor: James O'Gara Exeditor: Peter Steinfels Associate Editor: Raymond A. Schroth Editorial Assistant: Anne Robertson Columnists: John Garvey, Frank Getlein, Abigail McCarthy,Thomas Powers Movies: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...It is of coursea long, long I have no such to suggest...
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...but a number of recurringthemes in the letters may tell us somesignificantthings about an important representative, if not typical, partof the electorate...
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...that 1940 was followed by 1980: effective disarmament (not just the SALT "lim- Roosevelt's having to take us into war in 1941...
...Meanwhile an Associated Press poll shows that only 26 percent of the people think he is doing a good or excellent job, and every day more Democrats become convinced that, on crucialsocial and economic issues, Carter is flunking the leadership test...
...But for knows what century we are living in and has some ability to the moment, if it is not time yet for Nader's third party, it is at respond intellectually to its challenges...
...Paul and other cities have begun a movement to draft Senator Edward Kennedy...
...to save the cities (remember the trip to the South Bronx...
...From the beginning, in tune with his expressed moral principles yet frustrated with his constant backing-off from his agenda of social reform, Commonweal has supported President Carter with what might be described as off-again-on-again muted enthusiasm...
...and bring civil rights and economicjustice to blacks...
...to Carter that the Israeli government isprobably not going to do what it must do regarding the Palestinians unless the Commonweal: 292...
...296 Life in the parks: Thomas Powers 297 Sticking to the story: John Garvey 299 Going bust in Youngstown: Robert Howard 301 Screen: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Ralph Nader has called for consumer groups, antinuclear organizations, community-based citizens' organizations and some major trade unions to form a new political party...
...The first familiar patterns...
...Writing and editing ability as well as interest in books, current affairs and C a r t e r ' s M i d d l e E a s t e r n d a n g e r religion essential...
...The National Committee for a Democratic Alternative, charging that Carter'sbudget priorities give an extra$ l0 billionto the Pentagon and depriveelderly widows ofburial money andhungrychildren of milk, has begun the search for a 1980 candidate committed to those suffering most from inflation--the poor, the sick, the elderly, the jobless, the minorities...
...rationaliza- which was apeaceful year with near-complete demilitarization tion and renewal of our mass transportation systems...
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