Correspondence
To the Editor: One of the nicest things that has happened to me of late is a friend sending me a subscription to your thought-provoking and often hilarious Alternative. A case in point is Tommy...
...a) The people of the Third World want us to know that they see through our ruse and see us as being as Selfish as everyone else...
...8, on page 26, has to be a gag...
...Not only are reputable scholars such as Profs...
...Ferrell, Maddox, and Per- kins an indication of The Alternative's intellectual sophistication, but it is reassuring to know that bright, young graduate students such as Cooper, Folsom, and Goldberg will, in time, replace the aging historians and offset the gruesome influence of the wretched, unscrupulous revisionists...
...Washington seems to have settled for a strategy of attrition in dealing with the na-tion's elderly...
...Was he right and am I right in believing that the Republicans are out to get me...
...Ms...
...b) specific disapproval of the Western ideal of fair-play...
...The two- part article b~/ Prof...
...To the Editor: Recently one of the African students here stopped me to say how "great" the President was...
...Orthopaedic Surgery) Dear Dr...
...is frequently roundly condemned...
...But Rothbard argues, quite sensibly, that moral virtue is dependent upon acts of free will, and that enforcing through coercion an agreement to associate with someone is on attack on the necessary conditions for leading a moral life...
...Scott's electric girdle for men...
...At the risk of generalizing unduly from a limited sample, let me offer the following, which are I believe verifiable in the national political behaviors of the countries of the Third World...
...As to genocide, it is out of favor, largely because of the idealism of the New Left...
...still, I thought you might be interested in hearing what they said...
...For a quasi-professional periodical, I sense a hard-working and dedicated staff...
...At this game, and a game it is, the Communists get first-prize...
...They have caused me to cancel my subscription to The New York Review of Books...
...Incidentally, the girdle itself worked fine, but the cord was so short I could never leave the office...
...Apparently, among them, the Watergate caper has enhanced the Presi- dent's image...
...He has duped us and he is now on his way to New Jersey with the two hundred dollars Baron Van Kannon paid him for a Mid-west franchise...
...6. I laughed until I cried and have read and reread it...
...First inflation sapped my savings -- much of which was salted away in U.S...
...Their monocausal neuroses, sneaky and de- Cct ul scholarship, and arrogance make me wonder i Jst what type of graduate schools could have pro- duced such monsters...
...I am now in the process of having many copies made to send to friends and relatives, as well as social workers (of certain ilk)and a few psychiatrists who become suspicious when you say "good morning...
...San Diego LaJolla, California To the Editor: it is always with distrust and disdain that I read the letters published in journals...
...They are trite or inane, reflective of mindlessness, usualty incoherent, sometimes even fraudulent...
...Deborah L. Berg Chicago, Illinois To the Ed ito r: In reading Gary North's article on "The Persever- ance of the Family" in your February 1973 issue, I was bothered by one particular passage in which North implied that individualist-anarchist Murray Rothbard was on opponent of the family...
...If he can't quit, he is a slave Sincerely yours, Williamson M. Evers Stanford, California To the Editor: The advertisement your magazine published in the May 1973 issue Vol...
...Muffet" in the March issue, Vol...
...Scott and his fraudulent designs...
...In other words, one con indeed de- cide to associate with someone (as a servant, disciple, husband, wife, or whatever) for a period of time (even for a lifetime, the period that Rothbard wou Id suggest that marriages be intended for...
...As I am about to graduate, let me thank you for providing me with entertaining and useful reading...
...Russian imperialism in Europe and that of North Vietnam in Indo-China are quite blatant...
...As for Goldberg's review of Truman and Ferrell's review of The Rivals- historical journals must be getting envious...
...William Lehrman Columbus, Ohio To the Editor: Your book review section is getting better by leaps and bounds...
...Government Savings Bonds, series E--and then devaluation wrecked my travel business...
...Cooper's review of Fairlie's The Kennedy Promise-though I have not yet read the book (now I may not have to)- seems to me the best summary of Kennedy's effect on the presidency that anyone has ever managed to write...
...Please tell me that the ad was a gag or I will th ink The Alternative has gone ape...
...Andrews Scotland To the Editor: As long as three years ago (when one of my fraternity brothers subscribed) I realized that The Alternative was one of the wittiest student maga-zines around...
...This gives us our last point: 3) With selfishness so obvious, respect is granted to those who, while pursuing their own ends vigorously, concoct the most ingenious excuses...
...Those young punks are a disgrace to the pro-fession...
...I do not believe that a magazine as sophisticated as The Alternative could possibly believe in Dr...
...1) Approval of the Watergate caper indicates several things: it indicates (a) approval of the self- seeking disregard of what passes for contemporary Western morality...
...Yes, it was President Nixon to whom he referred...
...Also, is this the politics of genocide I've heard so much about...
...I used to be patriotic and a Republican, but now I am hardly either...
...A GREAT MAGAZINE and best of luck...
...Now that you are running articles like Robert H. Ferrell's "Truman Foreign Policy: A Traditionalist View" it is becoming one of the most useful...
...The ad states that Dr...
...This may be surprising, but I think it makes ob- vious certain feelings that the Westerners have only uneasily'sensed in the cultures of the develop- ing nations...
...On the contrary, Rothbard has always been a de- fender of marriage and the family...
...After Roosevelt made holding gold bullion a crime, my father told me that I might as well speculate in Confederate greenbacks as buy government securi-ties...
...Hammond of New York was the late Surgeon General of the U.S., and I do not really remember that either...
...A superb stroke of rationalizing genius it is...
...Was it a new aid program for developing nations...
...Beavon Boeselager Park Ridge, Illinois To the Editor: I recently overheard a conversction between two of the oddest chaps...
...Therefore, the "untrustworthy schemer" in the White House, who is intolerable to the "right-minded people" and other liberals, is to the people of the Third World an unpretentious realist...
...John Morgan U.C...
...Their language was atrocious and their ideas un- remarkable...
...In particular I wish to congratulate you tar your April and May issues...
...While there is little here of any redeeming intellectual merit, Plunkitt seemed so fond of you that I thought I'd pass it along...
...To the Editor: One of the nicest things that has happened to me of late is a friend sending me a subscription to your thought-provoking and often hilarious Alternative...
...Who would think that I would ever be compelled to write one Nonetheless I wish to commend your iournal for its intellectual yet realistic consideration of issues, both social and political, historical and contem-porary...
...Just one question: Haw can you stay in business when you charge only $3.00 a subscription...
...2) As the only nation that "really" attempts moral posturing, it is consequently to be expected that the U.S...
...Was it a new move for integration...
...RJE.T...
...Respectfully, G. Thomas Samartino, M.D...
...And the ideology even manages to condemn those who relish things like independence and liberty...
...I eagerly awaited your May issue so I could read the second installment and finish my term paper...
...Clearly they would be more adept at writing science fiction...
...But Rothbard does, as North indicated, oppose "slave contracts...
...Yours sincerely, Bruce E Meyer University of St...
...The Alternative June-September 1973...
...They have a marvelous and even somewhat systematic ideology for explaining how their blatant imperialism is, in truth, the highest morality...
...A case in point is Tommy W. Rogers' "On Ms...
...on Dr...
...Masque: I am a senior citizen, a travel agent, and an American...
...You are not the first man who should have listened more closely to his father...
...the other went by the name of G. Tilden Masque...
...d) a belief that those who have faith in such ideals are sanctimonious fools...
...Sincerely, Mrs...
...6, No...
...I expect his next stop will be at flEW...
...Plunkitt: While it is impossible for me to know how you might hove offended the GOP, I can advise you to get out of both your savings bonds and the travel business...
...c) a general belief that Western moral ideals are altruistic nonsense...
...Also, a word on your book reviews--Wow...
...Samartino: Fie...
...One called himself Plunkitt...
...b) No anti-Communist diatribes are necessary because of the obvious transparency of the Communists' attempts at moralizing...
...A correspondent New York, N.Y...
...it was, in one word, Watergate...
...Where his iife and liberty (usually in the form of his personal labor services)are at stake, an individual must be free to quit...
...Rothbard has on numerous occasions recommended these social insti- tutions as the proper setting for a happy and moral life...
...Ferrell has at last given the revisionists the "dressing-down" they deserve...
...To the best of my memory, this is what they said...
...Occasionally I pick up a his- tory book and have become intrigued by the origins and development of the Cold War...
...and (e) a belief that ad-vancement justifies any successful means to it...
...And why did he think Nixon so "great...
...As such he is accorded more respect than any other American president in a long time...
...Legally binding "slave contracts" would bean attempt to alienate the free will of a moral agent...
...My investigation reveals that, at least here, this is not an uncommon sentiment among students from the so~:alled Third World...
Vol. 6 • June 1973 • No. 9
