Volume 31, Number 4 · March 15, 1984

The Costs of Reaganism

By Emma Rothschild
Economic Report of the President
transmitted to the Congress February 1984

US Government Printing Office, 343 pp., $8.00

Department of Defense Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1985
by Caspar W. Weinberger

US Government Printing Office, 297 pp., $8.00

In their elated, vainglorious 1984 reports, Reagan's advisers suggest that their economic and military policies constitute a single 'spirit.' I think they are right. It is a spirit that dishonors—and may destroy—the world that Mr. Reagan proposes to lead.



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