Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE World War HI Economics Few articles in recent months have delighted me more than Eliot Cohen's review of the Daedalus collection on U.S. Defense Policy in the 1980s (March 1981)....
...Taki on ugly women...
...The outrageous anti-abortion feature by one of your editors (March 1981) filled me with disgust...
...The generals and old brass seem to be re-living their earlier careers by preparing to cross the Rhine again or climbing the sea wall at Normandy...
...I feel unclean to think that I ever got involved with you people...
...Taki, Is no more than a Japanese lackey, Since you think she's so fine, In '45, August 9, You should have been in Nagasaki...
...This is a love letter: 1. When I first read TAS- not to be confused with TASS-I thought you invented your hate mail...
...I notice no women writers among your authors and wonder if you intend to appeal only to male readers...
...4. English, plain and simple...
...We "uglies" believe you're distraught, Confused and so lacking in thought, 'Cause your male hormone measure Which you seem to treasure Appears to be quite close to naught...
...Helena Skalecki New York City Unclean Thoughts I received my first issue of The American Spectator...
...Could our problems be traced to a simple generation gap...
...Don Q. Reynolds, Jr...
...It is trashy and shameful to print something like that in a respectable and literary periodical such as you claim to be...
...Perhaps better, he injected a bit of new rationality into that tradition-bound, warmed-over corpus we call the defense establishment...
...I hope he forgives me if I think him both conservative and original...
...Major Los Angeles, California...
...And so on...
...Fairview, Tennessee Womantalk About Taki RE: "Ugly Women," (March 1981): Taki's treatise on women is bleak, Full of male chauvinism and pique, Without any guile In American style A la Fonda, let's answer the Greek...
...There was no article favoring abortion, merely this one-sided diatribe...
...As a result, please cancel my subscription immediately and refund the balance of the money...
...More than the review itself, his own brief analysis of our defense challenges was like a breath of fresh air...
...Is this why we are always prepared to fight the last war and not the next one...
...How fortunate for us, given the Anglo-American absolute predominance in this discipline...
...Dr...
...You thus eliminate one half of the population from your audience...
...Sally T. Knight New Orleans, Louisiana Having just read your recent article by Taki entitled Ugly Women (March 1981), I am moved to write and say that it is not only without factual basis or documentation but panders to the lowest instincts of your readership...
...3. Mr...
...5. I loved John Podhoretz's review of The Competition (March 1981) wherein he touts the conservative in film over the original...
...Talking hatchets, I call them...
...Your prize woman, my dear Mr...
...Cohen's remarks about the over-reliance on the "antiseptic laws of economic theory...
...Susan Hobbs Alexandria, Virginia P.S...
...Cohen is more than correct in his prescription for American defense, but it is economic laws that will guide us out of this wilderness, not some charismatic Moses or Patton...
...In a recent text on economic and psychological warfare, I have objected to Mr...
...Mr...
...Just as WWI was the war of the chemist and WWII the war of the physicist, we can expect WWIII to be the war of the economist...
...2. I tried by mental convolutions to reassure myself that I had not missed some ten years of your periodical...
...Since we are not permitted a summer vacation from the continuing crisis, neither should he...
...Tyrrell's "Marx and Freud, those two quacks" (I write from memory) endeared him to me for life...
Vol. 14 • May 1981 • No. 5
