Christopher Lasch’s The Agony of the American Left [Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $4.95] is a useful book which attempts to deal with the intellectual and political failure of the Left in America. He begins by asking the question invariably asked by the old of the young, “What’s your plan? What’s your program?” His answer […]
May 1969
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Letters, May 1969
The political reporters who cover Presidential politics are the cream of Washington’s crop. The fact that even they have a “credibility gap,” in spite of their experience and sense of ethics, is in itself significant. In that connection, I note David Broder’s reference (The Washington Monthly, February 1969) to Hubert Humphrey’s walking arm in arm […]
Posted inMay 1969
The Culture of Bureaucracy: The Missing Ambassador
Three years ago Dean Rusk is said to have complained to a staff aide that “some young men around here think we’re going to change our China policy. I can tell you,” he added with a flash of anger, “they’re dead wrong.” As it turned out, Secretary Rusk was proved right at the time. What […]
