Domestic Affairs:
Steinfels, Peter
Moore's account of many of the bishops' ical ironies or intricate theorizing. New Dealers can't survive. Doesn't he attacks on him is admirably restrained, The very structure of...
...An MX missile that may have a zens...
...You are 100 percent right Frank, we FREDERICK SHRIVER They had to be supplemented by: "The dropped the bomb twice, but not on Rusright to a useful and remunerative job...
...He also rupled by the USSR, a Tank Corps that is You can recognize one by the incorrigi- examines how well Congress has served outnumbered 5 to 1 by Warsaw Pact ble belief that government should and (selecting the cases of education and forces in Eastern Europe alone...
...outnumbered 2.5:1 in Eastern Europe cially the material well-being, of citi- The book, in effect,is a report card- alone...
...It is instructive to Correspondence ristown, St...
...Today they are almost exactly how far the nation has populated with 1950-vintage F-4 Phanall gone...
...110% less defense (and job stability...
...Sure, show a striking weakness, if anything, in honest accounting-modulated, docu- they don't bother us fighting those wars the opposite direction...
...lives who have replaced them in Wash- Commonweal welcomes letters on sub- Next time you want to vent your spleen ington, New Dealers have a relatively jects treated in its pages...
...Political rights alone were insufficient...
...No wonder Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia, niche in academia or the neoconserva- Ethiopia, Somalia, Zaire, et cetera...
...This patrician WASP, of Mor- of the Union message...
...Free...
...A Dealer once filled the skies with its num- cident and unemployment...
...domination by monopolies...
...the military budget...
...achieve them, they don't worry over- I'm mailing you a towel under separate much about subtle consequences, histor- cover, Frank...
...Contrary to careless reports, rush and swirl of political change...
...They spend 2.2 simple political philosophy: they expect more than 250 or 300 words naturally times the money DOD does and give you results, they try this or that in an effort to have a better chance of being published...
...but his chagrin at the unjustified vitupera- reveals its author's species...
...progressed-or not progressed-toward toms...
...They Poor James Duffy...
...The right Navy that has fewer ships now than in bers...
...As recently as the presidency of to a good education...
...A subcan (it is hard to say which of those verbs energy policy) and the presidency has marine force that is outnumbered 3.2:1 has become more controversial recently) performed under its Democratic and Re- worldwide, Tactical Air Forces that are do much to improve the lives, and espe- publican occupants...
...1952...
...How's this for savDealer (Homo tabularum novarum...
...If it's all that simple bishop, grounded in the scriptures and politics: "True individual freedom," de- perhaps Frank would like to try his hand the sacramental life, also willing to share clared Roosevelt, "cannot exist without at solving irredentist claims in Israel/ the pain and confusion of ordinary Chris- economic security and independence...
...tians...
...WE didn't bomb Pearl Harbor, Simon and Schuster, $10.95, 309 pp...
...An Air Force whose twenty-odd Lyndon B. Johnson, a sizable flock inha- James Duffy proceeds to examine wings of fighter aircraft are still heavily bited Washington...
...The right to adequate protection from the ings, Frank: a fleet of 350 (+ or - 25) Like the passenger pigeon, the New economic fears of old age, sickness, ac- B-52 aircraft, first hatched in 1950...
...Paul's School and Yale, has recall such texts at a time when various had a great ministry among the poor and observers insist that "over-promising" (Continued on page 354) deprived, and his apologia speaks inti- was a nefarious invention of the '60s and superior knowledge of Geography, and mately to his readers of a Christian did not mark our earlier "pragmatic" probably History...
...He has given us an And those lovely Cubans Frank...
...J. A. RONDEAU 22 June 1979: 383...
...The New Dealer believes in the he uses the image himself-and like a dozen units on line by 1984 if the adminfederal government as the leading engine report card it is straightforward, de- istration says "yes" today, while the of reform...
...The right Frank, THEY did...
...Like a report card, made operational 3 SS-teen series misteristic shared with that related species, it also lacks the unifying theoretical siles (and MIRVed too, Frank), an Air the Progressive-believes that these vir- thrust that we look for in political Defense force comprised of 300 aged tues, energetically exercised, can over- analyses, the key that will satisfy our F-106 and equally long-toothed F-4 aircome prejudice, greed, self-interest and need for larger explanations to order the craft to meet an expected fleet of 500 neglect...
...The book PETER STEINFELS tion is movingly expressed in the reprint begins with the "Economic Bill of of a speech which he gave to the House of Rights," included in FDR's 1944 State Bishops...
...Letters of not on somebody, try HEW...
...and-a charac- here, a C-minus there...
...believes generally in "leader- partmentalized, handing out a B-plus Soviets in the last 4 years alone have ship" and in "concern...
...Palestine...
...And, Frank wants to save money from dangered species known as the New The right to adequate medical care...
...Backfires by 1984, . , . New Dealers are not doctrinaire...
...James Duffy belongs to a rare and en• of every family to a decent home...
...sia, and the whole idea, way back then in The right of every businessman, large those "oh so idealistic" days was to save DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: AMERICAN PRO- and small, to trade in an atmosphere of American lives, perhaps a half million or GRAMS & PRIORITIES, by James Duty, freedom from unfair competition and more...
...Unlike the Marx- mented, sensible, useful, compassion- of liberation, but how about the folks in ists who have stolen their environmental ate, and good-intentioned...
...assuring these "rights...
...A manpower pool that is quadThe New Dealer has distinctive traits...
...Doesn't he attacks on him is admirably restrained, The very structure of Domestic Affairs know that this is 1979...
Vol. 106 • June 1979 • No. 12
