Books, Arts & Manners: To Each According to His Power

Family and Nation, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Harcourt Brace, 207 pp., $12.95)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan argues that “no government, however firm might be its wish otherwise, can avoid having policies that profoundly influence family relationships. This is not to be avoided. The only option is whether these will be purposeful, intended policies or whether they will be residual, derivative, in a sense concealed ones.”