Volume 19, Number 4 · September 21, 1972
I'm All Right, Dick
By Yosal Rogat
On the Democratic Idea in America
by Irving Kristol
Harper and Row, 149 pp., $5.00
By reading this book one discovers what Spiro Agnew would sound like if he had gone to CCNY in the Thirties. Irving Kristol's villains, like Agnew's, are drugs, pornography, 'youth,' the 'adversary culture,' 'intellectuals' (professors in particular), those who criticize the war, those on welfare and others who share 'unreasonable' expectations of material well-being, 'urban mobs,' and so forth. His primary method of exposition, like Agnew's, is the sweeping undocumented assertion. It is therefore no surprise to learn, from the Wall Street Journal, that Kristol is the academic writer most frequently cited by the Nixon Administration.
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