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Long 92 Background Books 96 ETHNICITY: Three Black Histories Tho171(2S Soi'Vell 107 EINSTEIN AND NEWTON: Two Legacies 12) Paul Formai7 114 On Newton (1 927) b?)Albert Einstein ARCHITECTURE TODAY 121 The Modern Movement: What Went Wrong? 12v Peier Blake Hawks, Doves, and Flights of Fancy 1211 Revnu Banham 135 The Future's Past bv Rem KoolJmas 141 Background Books 144 CURRENT BOOKS PERSPECTIVES The Quiet Trade: Russian Art and American Money Robert C. Williams REFLECTIONS William Shakespeare, Gentleman by S. Sc/7c)enl~cz~oii 190 IS^\ I ' t VOLUME 111 NUMBER 1 EUROCOMMUNISM: The Italian Case Edited by Austin Ranney and Giovanni Sartori This collection of papers analyzes the present political situation in Italy as a case study of problems confronting not only Italy but other Western European nations and the United States as well. 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Our economic system turns out to be as pluralistic as our political and cultural ~~stern.99 Michael Novak 66 Why do different ethnic and racial groups in America show different patterns of economic achievement? I know of no other book which goes into this question with the same depth of research and insight. It is invaluable not only for understand in^ the pattern of achievement, but as a basis for developing and judging policies that attempt to r.aisi- ,% minority-group income and occupational attainment.?? Nathan Glazer 66~owc11brings the discussion of racial issues-which, with good cause, so preoccupy us-into a wider historical and comparative context. The experience of Black Americans is seen. at least in some important aspects, as the experience of one of many ethnic groups striving for identity and advancement in our plural society. It is an approach which yields a richness of insight-with respect both to what has been accomplished and to the problems and injustices that remain before us. It is. in short. an invaluable contribution to a complex and ongoing national debate. 99 Sen. Daniel Moyiiilian $15 cloth. 415 pages $7.50 paperback (Essays only), 254 pages The Urban Institute with the assistance 2100 M St., N.W. of Lynn D. Collins Washington, D.C. 20037 0 $15 cloth D $7.50 paperback (Orders must be prepaid, plus 5% for postage and $1.50 for handling.) Name Address We cannot, for the life of us, understand why so scale-or just make a credible threat to stop-that many liberals in this country are so hostile to pri- company's management tends to listen, and listen vate business, when in our opinion they should be attentively. But if you think government isanywhere 'working with business to achieve what should be near as responsive, just recall your last encounter their basic objectives. with your City Hall, or your maddening corre- spondence with a government agency. Liberals have been among the prime movers in the enactment of much of this country s social Government can become so pervasive that legislation-Aid to Dependent Children, Social Se- it becomes virtually impossible for the citizenry to curity, housing for the poor and the elderly, school turn it around and change itscourse, indeed, ours lunches, and other programs All of these pro- may already have become so. But it's doubtful that grams have to be financed by revenues derived business could ever get so big or so unresponsive, mainly from taxes on individual and corporate in- because it is subject to reaction in the marketplace come and to public opinion generally, and to legislation that can curb an entire industry overnight. The greater these incomes-which is to say, the more prosperous American business is-the What should be a tip-off to any thinking lib- greater the tax revenues. When incomes drop, as eral is that an anti-business posture, complete with in a recession, so do tax revenues. Social pro- the cliches that too often substitute for thinking, is grams then have to be reduced accordingly or mandatory in many liberal circles and is not to be supported by deficit financing, which over any ex- subjected to rigorous intellectual examination. It is tended period means inflation For the poor and for a knee-jerk reaction, arising largely from condi- people living on fixed incomes, inflation is the tions that ceased to exist many years ago and to cruelest tyranny of all some that never existed at all. It therefore would seem to us that in all logic Lionel Trilling wrote: "It has for some time liberals should be as pro-business as they are pro- seemed to me that a criticism which has at heart social progress. And we believe many more of the interest of liberalism might find its most useful them would be \\ it were not so fashionable intel- work not in confirming liberalism in its sense of lectually to be part of the "trendy left." Too many of self-righteousness but rather in putting under them respond unthinkingly tosocial and academic some degree of pressure the liberal ideas and as- pressures rather than engaging in clear, indepen- sumptions of the times."(The Liberal Imagination: dent analysis. Essays on Literature and Society, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.) Part of the problem appears to be snobbery, pure and simple To many of what might be called We find puzzling the extent to which liberals the professional liberals, business-indeed, our often seem impelled to weaken the economic whole industrial society-is impossibly vulgar.