Volume 27, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1981

The Conservative Onslaught

By John Kenneth Galbraith

In economic and social affairs we value controversy and take it for granted; it is the essence of politics, its principal attraction as a modern spectator sport. This regularly keeps us from seeing how substantial, on occasion, can be the agreement on a broad range of ideas and policies within which the political debate proceeds.



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