Correspondence
U.S. News Clears Thomas of Sexual Harassment Charges In your recent excerpt from David Brock's new book, The Real Anita Hill ("The Other Anita Hill," TAS, May 1993), there was an error involving a...
...By quoting the Hardnett statement in the context of reporting—with no substantiation—that other women had allegedly failed to come forward against Thomas at the time of the hearings, the magazine again created the false impression that there were women other than Hill who had been harassed by Thomas...
...The title is Environmental Politics, explaining how the ecofascists have been able to find allies, some of whom can see some private return in promoting almost any environmental program—like Archer Daniels Midland and oxygenated fuels, to name...
...Lexington, Massachusetts Herbert London is exactly right that widespread vice is undermining our standard of living...
...I merely said that the magazine had "mischaracterized" Wright's charge...
...It seems to me we need some government activity to get sex out of this institution even if that means a government-sponsored voucher plan...
...I decided to give London's article to a self-described "Weld Republican" (and a charter member) for his perusal...
...Mark La Rochelle Bethesda, Maryland Governor Weld is on the right track, while Herbert London is lost in a switching yard...
...As the late Leonard Reed used to say, this is like attempting to cure a man who's been run over by a truck by having the truck back up over him again...
...Schnaubelt makes the erroneous claim that Governor Weld, despite claims to the contrary, has actually kept government out of our bedroom...
...In contrast, the disincentives of the welfare state penalize virtue and subsidize vice...
...Kathryn Bushkin Director of Editorial Administration U.S...
...Teach about homosexual culture in history, arts, and family life courses...
...These reforms, by the way, are merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg...
...S. News chose not to eport the crucial exchange in which IA right said she was not charging Thomas with harassment...
...Bushkin now emphasizes that the comments reported by Hardnett were not even Hardnett's own, but from other unnamed parties...
...This impression is false...
...The first comes directly from Adler's group of enlightened pilgrims, the Competitive Enterprise Institute...
...Brock writes that in our October 12, 1992 issue, we mischaracterized Angela Wright's charge against Thomas and "claimed that a third sexual harassment charge had been lodged against Thomas by Sukari Hardnett...
...Brock's crediting U.S...
...Equally, it has no business stepping into our bedrooms to enforce some conservative concept of morality...
...Purchase books on homosexual behavior for school libraries...
...In fact, we did not report that Ms...
...London correctly recognizes that the welfare state is largely responsible for encouraging impoverishing behavior such as the profusion of illegitimate children, yet he seems to believe the same (continued on page 69) CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 10) inept, wrongheaded bureaucracy can correct the situation by providing instruction in morality...
...Impossible as it may seem, Shabecoff has managed to write a book even worse than Al Gore's (A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Hill & Wang, 1993...
...Have school libraries purchase films dealing with homosexual behavior...
...How can it be a history of environmental political activity with not a single mention of either Henry Waxman or John Dingell...
...The government has no business reaching into our pockets to redistribute wealth in accordance with some liberal/socialist scheme of fairness...
...and the discipline of competition naturally reward temperance, enterprise, and thrift, and penalize licentiousness, sloth, and waste...
...Regarding Hardnett, the magazine did not report that Hardnett charged Thomas with sexual harassment...
...Coerced transfers of property from the productive to the destructive elements of society undermine not only our economy but the moral foundations of civilization...
...Wright charged Thomas with harassment but rather that she had been the target of Thomas's "unwanted sexual advances...
...This omission, togethi r with the description of Wright's charge as constituting "unwanted sexual advances" (a description that does not comport with my reading of the Wright statement), created the unmistakable impression that had she testified, Wright would have provided evidence of a pattern of sexual harassment by Thomas...
...Joseph J. Landino, Jr...
...Purportedly a history of the environmental movement, it is no more than a cut-and-paste collection of quotes from the tree-huggers...
...While we appreciate Mr...
...News & World Report Washington, D.C...
...Brock offers no fact or specific to indicate otherwise...
...It is as impossible for a government to effectively control the personal lives of its citizens as it is impossible for it to plan and direct the economy...
...Christopher M. Schnaubelt San Luis Obispo, California Herbert London replies: Mr...
...News with parts of the Hill-Thomas story that we reported first, we do not want our work to be mischaracterized...
...Include sexual orientation in human development education...
...This was an accurate characterization of Ms...
...London Scores I'd like to commend Herbert London on his wonderfully insightful article "The Permissive Right" (TAS, May 1993...
...In footnote 3 in the excerpt, Mr...
...If Governor Weld is on the right track, then the train is headed off the cliff...
...Establish an organization for homosexuals to meet with a faculty adviser...
...Instead, we said that she had reported "sexual comments" by Thomas...
...It's about time someone made the case that fiscal responsibility is inextricably tied to social responsibility...
...So bad is it that I doubt that it would pass muster even in a journalism school...
...In my book, I write that U S. News was part of a "revisionist tilt" towards believing Anita Hill and disbelieving Clarence Thomas...
...David Brock replies: Contrary to Kathryn Bushkin's assertion, I never wrote that U S. News reported that Angela Wright charged Thomas with harassment...
...Conservatives should seek not to speed up the process by further infringing rights, but to reverse it by restoring responsibility...
...It's fine to say keep the government out of the bedroom, but government has taken sex from the bedroom and put it in the schools...
...Wright's point, and Mr...
...Thank you, TAS, for your beacon of light in all this liberal fog...
...But the vices in question are not fostered by capitalist institutions, as he seems to imply...
...By this I mean that—having had access to the Wrigh` transcript—U...
...Republican Governor Weld is the first governor in the nation to establish a Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth which includes the following recommendations: • Establish public school policies to protect homosexual students from harassment...
...In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee dated October 13, 1991, Hardnett described her view of how various female employees of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Clarence Thomas were treated as objects of "sexual interest...
...But let me suggest the review of two more books recently available to a public badly in need of a wake-up call...
...For instance, it fails to mention the unique accomplishment of the New York Times's long-time environmental reporter, Phil Shabecoff...
...I know you're capable of exchanging ideas on a much higher plane than this sop for the uncomprehending conservative masses/blind followers (now 76 bodies less in Waco, Texas...
...With regard to Sukari Hardnett, Bushkin is splitting hairs as well...
...Several property, strict liability, insurance sanctions...
...In other words, these comments were little more than idle gossip...
...Please don't waste my time with this tripe...
...Required Reading With Al Gore in a position to do some real damage with his sophomoric ignorance of all things scientific, Jonathan H. Adler's review (TAS, April 1993) of the latest four tomes dedicated to the ravages and perils of environmental journalism is particularly timely...
...I stand by my assertion that the magazine mischaracterized the Hardnett statement, which contained this unreported sentence: "I am not claiming that I was the victim of sexual harassment...
...News Clears Thomas of Sexual Harassment Charges In your recent excerpt from David Brock's new book, The Real Anita Hill ("The Other Anita Hill," TAS, May 1993), there was an error involving a cited article from U.S...
...News & World Report...
...What I received back from him, in the form of a memo, typifies the response from this group when they are unexpectedly confronted with the light of truth: If this article is your idea of an erudite and insightful discussion of socio-economic matters, I am ashamed and embarrassed for you...
...Is the magazine now tilting the other way...
...Living in Massachusetts, I have many friends who are charter members of the "Permissive Right...
...It is also well done—as far as it goes...
...This was also false...
Vol. 26 • July 1993 • No. 7
