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There is a species of social commentary that is brilliant in its critique of social welfare programs, but tends to misfire when it proposes something positive to take the place of the existing system.

For reasons too complex to recount here, such commentary is a leading feature of what is usually called “neoconservatism.” Its most distinguished practitioner is Senator Daniel P. Moynihan of New York, who is capable of following a trenchant analysis of errors enfolded in the aid-to-dependent-children program with demands for a guaranteed-annual-income scheme which, by most assessments, would serve to make the situation worse.

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There is a species of social commentary that is brilliant in its critique of social welfare programs, but tends to misfire when it proposes something positive to take the place of the existing system.

For reasons too complex to recount here, such commentary is a leading feature of what is usually called “neoconservatism.” Its most distinguished practitioner is Senator Daniel P. Moynihan of New York, who is capable of following a trenchant analysis of errors enfolded in the aid-to-dependent-children program with demands for a guaranteed-annual-income scheme which, by most assessments, would serve to make the situation worse.