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Critical of Reagan administration reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Particularly the administration's analysis of the Senate ratification debate, the record of subsequent practice, and the negotiating record itself.

In 1939, Erich Fromm argued that capitalist culture imbues the pursuit of economic advantage with moral tensions that harm self and psyche. Since this time, the inner implications of such tensions have been somewhat overlooked by theorists, and not without seemingly good reasons. By many accounts, social and technological developments in the later decades of the 20th century have ostensibly reduced the cultural tensions surrounding profit making and mitigated their inner effects. This article, however, presents a different account. Drawing from literature on culture, self, and subjectivity in the neoliberal era, it argues that the tensions Fromm identified have actually been recreated in new, sometimes more elusive ways that bear substantial inner costs. Moreover, focusing on economic elites, this article analytically explores the agentic implications of these inner costs. It argues that the moral tensions that haunt profit making ironically stand at the basis of capitalist agency, shaping its materialistic default through processes rooted in self.

New estimates of poverty in the US for the period 1959 through 1975 have been calculated by revising the official income data to include the value of in-kind transfers. The method presented here "cashes out" & distributes the benefits from food stamps, rent supplements, public housing, medicaid-medicare, & other need-based, nonmoney transfer programs. Presented are new estimates of the poverty population based on the net real income of US households. This contrasts with the official statistics, which are based exclusively on money income; this is too narrow a definition at a time when over 60% of the need-based transfer budget represents in-kind or nonmoney aid to the poor. The official poverty series is compared with the new series based on post-in-kind-transfer income. The official statistics indicate that the number of persons in poverty during the last decade has remained around 25 million. Yet this was a period of great expansion in public programs to aid the poor. This seeming contradiction is explained by the revised poverty series which shows that poverty has sharply declined to about 6 million persons or 3% of the population. 4 Tables, 1 Chart. AA.

This book brings together for the first time two philosophers from different traditions and different centuries. While Wittgenstein was a focal point of 20th century analytic philosophy, it was Hegel's philosophy that brought the essential discourses of the 19th century together and developed into the continental tradition in 20th century. This now-outdated conflict took for granted Hegel's and Wittgenstein's opposing positions and is being replaced by a continuous progression and differentiation of several authors, schools, and philosophical traditions. The development is already evident in the tendency to identify a progression from a 'Kantian' to a 'Hegelian phase' of analytical philosophy as well as in the extension of right and left Hegelian approaches by modern and postmodern concepts. Assessing the difference between Wittgenstein and Hegel can outline intersections of contemporary thinking.