The Rich and the Poor
ARE THE HAVES RESPONSIBLE for the disquieting plight of the Have-Nots? Continue reading
06/6/88
Author: Myron Magnet
11/23/87
The Homeless
DEEPLY DISTURBED AND ENSHROUDED BY MYTH, many are victims of alcohol, family breakdown — and well-intentioned social policies gone awry. Most need more than housing to solve their problems. Continue reading
07/6/87
The Money Society
HOW MUCH DOES HE MAKE? How big was the deal? What did they pay for their house … their boat … their painting? Money seems to be the only thing that counts these days. Here’s why. Continue reading
05/11/87
America’s Underclass: What to do?
DRUGS. CRIME. Illegitimacy. Welfare. Failure. All these imprison five million citizens. But some imaginative policies can liberate them. Continue reading
03/2/87
Restructuring Really Works
CUTBACKS, SPINOFFS, AND BUYOUTS bring pain — but the gains are worth it. Says a veteran: “It’s like going into a pet shop and opening the bird cages and letting out the birds.” Continue reading
12/8/86
The Decline and Fall of Business Ethics
WHAT IS THIS — the business news or the crime report? Continue reading
05/31/85
Dickens and the Social Order
Myron Magnet’s groundbreaking study of Charles Dickens’s early novels shows that the liberal reformism for which Dickens is so well known rested on a surprisingly traditional view of society.
Magnet writes, “The four great but relatively neglected works I discuss in Dickens and the Social Order … add up to what for another writer would constitute a magnificent life’s work in itself, a tour de force that is like a university education in psychology, political theory, comparative political science, cultural anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and more — all transfigured and illuminated by the genius of the writer rightly said to be Inimitable, so that the reader can hardly believe that anything so full of pleasure can also be so full of wisdom.” Continue reading