Correspondence: Letters from Fennell, Capp, Duggan, Souder, Newman, and Utt
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To the Editor: inrn~ ~rnnf'e rpvic~w nf T,,~k=~'r E EI~W Iq;o|l~t~on-ism: Threat or Promise? is quite inadequate. Mr. Grant fai~s to convey much of the logic and many of the assumptions which...
...Have understanding...
...Tucker acknowledges that pro/iferatinn wou~d occur, in the most unlikely event that his proposals were adopted, but this does not worry him...
...the one hope for restoring reason to its rightful place in our social, academic and political institutions...
...This gospel according to Brudnoy is somewhat enticing...
...WGBH paid no attention to the suggestion...
...On the other hand, I have attended parties where marijuana was smoked casu- ally and where the party, not the high, was the impor- tant occasion...
...Lyons and his staff with the self-congratulatory deference of a plan- tation owner to a field hand permitted to enter the mansion house on special holidays...
...To begin with, A New Isolatbnism is the latest in a trilogy of works by Tucker dealing with American foreign policy...
...But Grant does not realize that Tucker is asserting that the Cold War should have been over two decades ago...
...Drawing on such writers as Ayn Rand, Ludwig yon Mises and Henry Hazlitt, Hospers integrates the most forceful libertarian arguments into a coherent case ranging in issues from individual rights to international relations, from welfare to ecology...
...However, to dismiss him,as Grant does in essence, with the statement that "He has advocated what is probably an unwise course, but worse, he has not even done so for the right reasons," is unsatisfactory...
...North fails, however, to consider Christ's greatest commandment, charity, that we love and forgive the sinner (whether a liar, a thief, or a homo-sexual) no matter how hateful his offense...
...He then proceeds to attempt to prove the dangers of marijuana by praising many aspects of the consumption of alcohol...
...Veal's feeling that there are dangers in marijuana and that alcohol and marijuana are very different...
...1 strongly disagree with Tucker...
...That kincl of concerned me since I had always thought God knew everything...
...The book is a virtual encyclopedia that deals with almost every objection to a free market and a free so- ciety...
...Please send me all three volumes (in paperback editions) at the special combination price of $7.75, a savings of 5% over the regular prices...
...Hayek's magnum opus, a mas- sive and searching analysis of the philosophy of liberty...
...RADICAL LIBERTARIANISM: A RIGHT WING ALTERNATIVE by Jerome Tuccille concentrates on the aspect of libertarianism with which he is most familiar: the fragmentation of the American right-wing into two distinct camps, traditionalist conservatives and libertarians...
...Tell that to the parents of children killed by drunk drivers, Mr...
...and, at the same time, there are parents who give their children alcoholic drinks at pre-school ages...
...David Brudnoy I have to thank for this self- awareness...
...This is the most rigorous development of one great school of thought within libertarian circles...
...Louis, Missouri To the Editor: It is with great grief that I must confess I have a "mentality alien to responsible conservatism...
...We can be intellectual...
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...Sincerely, Mark Souder University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana To the Editor: I want to take a brief moment to congratulate you on the inclusion of David Brudnoy's article in the Feb- ruary issue ("Queer-Baiting for Faith, Fun, and Pro- fit...
...Grant fai~s to convey much of the logic and many of the assumptions which inform Tucker's position...
...There are smokers who deplore its us~ by very young people...
...Marijuana users do not feel the same about marijuana...
...Not that Boston's "public" TV station doesn't wel- come new regulars...
...Grant does n at camp rehend Tucker's percep lion of the Cold War which forms an important part of the isolationist thesis...
...Joseph P. Duggan St...
...Item: Alcohol users go to a party for the party...
...Dukakis is now a strong contender for the Governorship...
...Look more closely at any graduation, Mr...
...What God said kind of, well, was law...
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...is over...
...It is unfortunate for the "Gay Rights Movement" ihat the New Left has picked up their cause...
...Dukakis...
...As a result of this priceless TV exposure, Mr...
...Veal...
...They may be ignorant but they ain't dumb...
...The national affairs commentator on the show on which Mr...
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...Tucker does not believe that the Soviet Union has been an expan- sionist power since Stalin's death...
...The acts witl go on among consenting adutts whatever the law...
...Veal's basic feeling about marijuana is one which I share...
...That's when I realized i was old old-fashioned...
...He is a Democrat, ~nd a liberal...
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...Grant observes that for Tucker the "Cold War...
...Mrs...
...however, the mode he follows to prove his point is both false and danger- ous...
...It was His way or Hell...
...And, horror of horrors, I felt sorry for them...
...Upon reading in National Review that Brudnoy felt All McGraw was the most beautiful girl in the world, I breathed a sigh of relief in spite of the slur to Racquel Welch...
...Any TV time Mr...
...I congratulate Professor Brudnoy on his hard- hitting article and hope that he opens some here-tofore closed minds...
...Tuccille presents the essentials of libertarianism more succinctly, but no less persuasively than does Prof...
...Only after years of na~gging and complaints to the FCC by unliberals was Mr...
...Advocacy of equal rights for homosexuals is not the advocacy of an increase in homosexual acts...
...Hospers...
...Sorry, Mr...
...Sincerely...
...Item: Alcohol drinkers deplore the use of alcohol by teens and sub-teens...
...C To the Editor: inrn~ ~rnnf'e rpvic~w nf T,,~k=~'r E EI~W Iq;o|l~t~on-ism: Threat or Promise...
...Brudnoy permitted to join the newscast...
...But ! am a nondrinker as well as a non-smoker, so not only could I give Mr...
...Grant has not even told us what Tucker's "reasons" are...
...You know.., typically Hoosier...
...In other words Tucker is a Cold War "revisionist" for the period from 1953 onwards...
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...Veal...
...Veal...
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...Ancl in addition, Tuccille includes an important and interesting his'ory of the initial development of liber- tarianism as a self-conscious "movement...
...In all fairness, however, he is treated by Mr...
...item: Marijuana users smoke pot at graduations...
...A young and dynamic movement that is spreading rapidly on college cam- puses and among intellectually alive men and women everywhere, liber- tarianism promises to be the one system that may succeed in reversing the unremitting growth of government and loss of individual rights...
...Have you ever asked people at a party if they would have come had there net been liquor there...
...With an exotic mixture of cynicisms, North stumbles into black comedy: "The wages of sin are death," he writes with the self-assuredness of one born on the right side of the railroad tracks (or The Judgment Seat), "but God offers an advance on people's salary from time to time...
...Sorry again, Mr...
...The previous two volumes (Nation or Empire...
...A num- ber of normally moderate or conservative people have been driven out of the conservative movement into the "residue of the Bomber Left" by our conservative brethren who, while writing pamphlets about the mind control of 1984ish Russia,continue to oppose laws that would allow people to live their own personal life styles-as long as they did not infringe on the rights of others...
...It just seems a damn shame that our society makes criminals out of people for acts committed in the privacy of their own homes...
...An understanding of libertarianism, then, is critical to those who wish to understand how a better world can be built tomorrow...
...I am sure to some the advocacy of equal rights to all human beings- heterosexualand homosexual-portends the end of society as they know it...
...Arguments are presented as to why Tucker believes we should not worry about proliferation...
...Veal...
...Renee Utt Bloomington,Indiana The Alternative April 1973 If you have ever been stirred and enlightened by the novels of Ayn Rand, George Orwell or Robert Heinlein, by the rigor and logic of the work in economics of Milton Friedman, Ludwig yon Mises, Henry Hazlitt and Murray N. Rothbard, by the biting social commentary of H.L...
...Only, when one realizes the forces of evil are sup~ posedly one's allies, the fight within tends to transfer to frustration...
...The data which purportedly supports this claim is delineated in The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy...
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...For too long, the stereotype of a concerned conservative was that ofo young man or woman who, standing on a "soapbox," was best known for condemning government incursions into the lives of people...
...For the past couple of years, a new face, that of Mike Dukakis, has regularly appeared as whipmaster of its nationally-syndicated hour-long show, "The Advocates...
...Dialogue...
...This volume examines the nature of liberty and coercion, and its relationship tothe state, focusing on why man needs liberty...
...Item: (and I quote): "in the deepest folds at Bacchus, men see pink elephants...
...Tucker's book, given the neo-isolationist _mood in the U.S., is being widely discussed and assigned in American foreign policy courses...
...It was Victor Hugo who gave us the unforgettable statement which describes libertarianism today: "'There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come...
...He explained that God knew nothing of modern psychiatry when he smote the Sodomites...
...marijuana users go for the high...
...Very truly yours, J. Tim Fennell Los Angeles, California To the Editor: It would be heartening if David Brudnoy were, as you stated, "national affairs commentator on WGBH- TV in Boston...
...I al- ways had an "uncompromising and relentlessly an- tagonistic" attitude toward the "morally degen-erate homosexuals...
...Mencken and Albert J. Nock, then you owe yourself an introduc- tion to libertarianism...
...A 'homosexual man" is still a faggot...
...My hope for America no longer lies with the socalled intellectual conservative leaders...
...Brudnoy appears is Lou~s Lyons, a revered and passionate liberal...
...and The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy) contain a great deal of the analysis supporting Tucker's argument for isolationism...
...You'll find there either liquor or at least a "number of people already high on it...
...Brudnoy's article in TheAItem~tive,"Queer- baiting for Faith, Fun, and Profit" was enlightening...
...Brudnoy delineated Biblical teachings covering homosexuality...
...Its appearance at this time is quite important for the "new conservatism" represented by such groups as TEe Alternative and YAF...
...Sincerely, AI Capp Boston, Massachusetts To the Editor: What is more disappointing than David Brudnoy's hackneyed misrepresentation of medieval Christen- dom ("Perspective on the Family and Homosexual- ity," February): Gary North's failure to present a serious, authentically Christian view of homosexual- ity...
...Try it...
...Let me state again that I share Mr...
...How un-under-standing...
...However, I have found that th.ose mast "uptight" are those who simply cannot practice the same thing that they preach...
...INI)IVII)UAI...
...It was suggested to WGHB that Arvi Nelson, a young Conservative who piled up a startling vote running for Congress around Boston, share the time given to Mr...
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...Unfortunately, that same person was always seemingly able to look the other way when government interfered in the private lives of those members of society with whom our young model conservative dis- agreed...
...We can all sit around smoking ioints and mock the ignorant close-minded Christians...
...Listen to both sides...
...Veal some very convincing arguments about the "metaphysical distinctions" between pot and alcohol, but I could do so wiflmut praising the benefits or glossing over the disadvantages of either...
...They are to the eye funny creatures, more likely to raise a smile than a whiff of terror...
...He appears on an infrequent basis...
...A New Isolationkm requires a much more searching review and analysis than it has received from Mr...
...For example, Tucker proclaims in A New Ilsolatmism that the U.S.is not dependent on foreign resources to sus-tain our economy...
...Neanderthal...
...alcohol users do not drink...
...James A. Newman Plains Regional Representative Young Americans for Freedom Faribault, Minnesota To the Editor: As an interested reader of The Alternative, I was dismayed to find an article which I consider to be far below your usuat standards, i have iust finished reading E. T. Veal's article "Booze and Pot: the Meta- physical Distinction...
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...He states that "alcohol and marijuana are differ- ent things" and that "mariiuana must stand on its own...
...Nelson needs, he must pay for...
...He is joined, nightly, by other liberals...
...Throughout my years as a young conservative activist, upon reading an article such as Brudnoy's that I consider a threat to the principles which I believe in, I would now pick up my sword and ready myself for battle with the forces of evil...
...Grant also fails to note Tucker's startling (particu- larly for a liberal) treatment of nuclear proliferation...
...Doour own thing with no inhibitions...
...My hope dies with the plain folks of Bean Blossom and Gnaw Bone, Indiana...
...I have...
...It is Mr...
Vol. 6 • April 1973 • No. 7
