The Moynihan report and ongoing family breakdown

National Review Online ^ | May 11, 2010 | Rich Lowry

[ConservativePsychProf]

How often does the Office of Policy Planning and Research of the United States Department of Labor produce anything worth reading, let alone a report that reverberates 45 years later?

Such was the brilliance of Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan that it happened once, when he wrote his prescient 1965 report “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” He wrote it on a typewriter over a few weeks and had the publications office in the basement of the Labor Department print 100 of them, marked “For Official Use Only.”

[ConservativePsychProf]

This catastrophe is the other side of the coin of the "demographic death spiral" the West is in. On dark days I fear for our future as a self-governing and independent people.

[Obadiah]

I’m sure Kagan will increase the speed of our demise thus shortening your pain and discomfort. (I get the window side of the railroad box car!)

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Moynihan was the last honest liberal.

[darkangel82]

Too true.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Moynihan was at the Department of labor when Ralph Nader was a low level clerk in the agency. In his memoirs, Moynihan wrote that one day, Nader approached him with deep suspicion that the agency’s phones were tapped.
Moynihan told Nader not to worry. There was nothing of value at Labor anyway...