Books
February, 1974
In his philosophy of government, Daniel P. Moynihan doesn't come on quite as strong as, say, Machiavelli or Marx--which, when you think about it, may have something to do with the way things have been for the past few hundred years. Moynihan is most emphatically not an earth shaker; in fact, his approach is pretty well summed up in the title of his latest collection: Coping (Random House). If he is anything, Moynihan is flexible: not strictly against government--only the kind that promises much,...