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Rethinking Social Policy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

In 1981, three articles appeared in The New Yorker that dealt with the American “underclass.” These influential pieces, by Ken Auletta, refueled a debate that began with Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s work on the black family. In the last decade, impressive voices from both the con- servative and liberal sides have joined the discussion. Charles Murray’s Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (1984) argued that the War on Poverty actually made the poor worse off after 1964. In 1985, James Q. Wilson and...

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