White Dealers

July, 2010

Howard /inn ("Where Are the-Jobs?," April), who died earlier tliis year, will be badly missed—now especially, because he always emphasized the importance of gov­ernment even as government was being disparaged. Alter 75 years of progressiv-ism, America slipped in the 1970s into ail age of anti-government ideology that took wing on the ideas of economist Mil­ton Friedman. To Friedman, the creation and distribution of social services was no different, from selling a Buick: It could be mos...