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Opinion. Contends that social programs Americans like cause social pathologies they fear. The views of David Frum, author of `Dead Right'; His contention that few conservatives are serious about combating the social ills they deplore; Ronald Reagan's failure to abolish any major spending program; Frum's kind words for Texas Senator Phil Gramm.

Opinion. Defends meritocracy as the ideal social order which is now under furious intellectual assault. Definition of meritocracy; Its criticism that it is dominated by upscale snobs; Increase in professionals; America as an open society; How change and insecurity define a competitive economy and a meritocracy; Michael Lind's book, `The Next American Nation.'