Unemployment is now the most critical issue of the current recession, whose depth and duration remain unpredictable despite the federal stimulus program. New sources of economic growth sufficiently vigorous and labor-intensive to absorb the growing pool of redundant workers, domestically …
Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg by Joshua Rubinstein Basic Books, 1996. 482 pp. $35.00. Finding a good subject is a biographer’s first hurdle, and in choosing Ilya Ehrenburg, Joshua Rubinstein flew right over the bar. What …
Britain has had a Labor government for more than a year, and only now does its position seem secure. Even to say that evokes an air of unreality, because the parliamentary majority is balanced on a knife-edge of three votes; …
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