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...
...6, No...
...Clearly they would be more adept at writing science fiction...
...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...
...still, I thought you might be interested in hearing what they said...
...And the ideology even manages to condemn those who relish things like independence and liberty...
...For a quasi-professional periodical, I sense a hard-working and dedicated staff...
...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...
...Ms...
...d) a belief that those who have faith in such ideals are sanctimonious fools...
...Masque: I am a senior citizen, a travel agent, and an American...
...As to genocide, it is out of favor, largely because of the idealism of the New Left...
...Also, is this the politics of genocide I've heard so much about...
...A correspondent New York, N.Y...
...Where his iife and liberty (usually in the form of his personal labor services)are at stake, an individual must be free to quit...
...A GREAT MAGAZINE and best of luck...
...Yours sincerely, Bruce E Meyer University of St...
...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...
...Was it a new move for integration...
...Incidentally, the girdle itself worked fine, but the cord was so short I could never leave the office...
...I do not believe that a magazine as sophisticated as The Alternative could possibly believe in Dr...
...The Alternative June-September 1973...
...Sincerely, Mrs...
...In particular I wish to congratulate you tar your April and May issues...
...Not only are reputable scholars such as Profs...
...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...
...b) No anti-Communist diatribes are necessary because of the obvious transparency of the Communists' attempts at moralizing...
...While there is little here of any redeeming intellectual merit, Plunkitt seemed so fond of you that I thought I'd pass it along...
...On the contrary, Rothbard has always been a de- fender of marriage and the family...
...Beavon Boeselager Park Ridge, Illinois To the Editor: I recently overheard a conversction between two of the oddest chaps...
...To the best of my memory, this is what they said...
...on Dr...
...The ad states that Dr...
...A superb stroke of rationalizing genius it is...
...2) As the only nation that "really" attempts moral posturing, it is consequently to be expected that the U.S...
...Their language was atrocious and their ideas un- remarkable...
...They have caused me to cancel my subscription to The New York Review of Books...
...Samartino: Fie...
...Government Savings Bonds, series E--and then devaluation wrecked my travel business...
...As such he is accorded more respect than any other American president in a long time...
...Yes, it was President Nixon to whom he referred...
...The two- part article b~/ Prof...
...Please tell me that the ad was a gag or I will th ink The Alternative has gone ape...
...Also, a word on your book reviews--Wow...
...First inflation sapped my savings -- much of which was salted away in U.S...
...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...
...Scott and his fraudulent designs...
...San Diego LaJolla, California To the Editor: it is always with distrust and disdain that I read the letters published in journals...
...A case in point is Tommy W. Rogers' "On Ms...
...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...
...RJE.T...
...Hammond of New York was the late Surgeon General of the U.S., and I do not really remember that either...
...And why did he think Nixon so "great...
...Just one question: Haw can you stay in business when you charge only $3.00 a subscription...
...To the Editor: Recently one of the African students here stopped me to say how "great" the President was...
...William Lehrman Columbus, Ohio To the Editor: Your book review section is getting better by leaps and bounds...
...Orthopaedic Surgery) Dear Dr...
...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...
...But Rothbard does, as North indicated, oppose "slave contracts...
...I expect his next stop will be at flEW...
...the other went by the name of G. Tilden Masque...
...it was, in one word, Watergate...
...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...
...Rothbard has on numerous occasions recommended these social insti- tutions as the proper setting for a happy and moral life...
...Those young punks are a disgrace to the pro-fession...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...As I am about to graduate, let me thank you for providing me with entertaining and useful reading...
...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...
...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...
...One called himself Plunkitt...
...Washington seems to have settled for a strategy of attrition in dealing with the na-tion's elderly...
...Occasionally I pick up a his- tory book and have become intrigued by the origins and development of the Cold War...
...Russian imperialism in Europe and that of North Vietnam in Indo-China are quite blatant...
...They are trite or inane, reflective of mindlessness, usualty incoherent, sometimes even fraudulent...
...8, on page 26, has to be a gag...
...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...
...and (e) a belief that ad-vancement justifies any successful means to it...
...Ferrell has at last given the revisionists the "dressing-down" they deserve...
...You are not the first man who should have listened more closely to his father...
...I eagerly awaited your May issue so I could read the second installment and finish my term paper...
...Was he right and am I right in believing that the Republicans are out to get me...
...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...
...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...
...6. I laughed until I cried and have read and reread it...
...As for Goldberg's review of Truman and Ferrell's review of The Rivals- historical journals must be getting envious...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...is frequently roundly condemned...
...Was it a new aid program for developing nations...
...Apparently, among them, the Watergate caper has enhanced the Presi- dent's image...
...b) specific disapproval of the Western ideal of fair-play...
...John Morgan U.C...
...They have a marvelous and even somewhat systematic ideology for explaining how their blatant imperialism is, in truth, the highest morality...
...At this game, and a game it is, the Communists get first-prize...
...Legally binding "slave contracts" would bean attempt to alienate the free will of a moral agent...
...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...
...My investigation reveals that, at least here, this is not an uncommon sentiment among students from the so~:alled Third World...
...I used to be patriotic and a Republican, but now I am hardly either...
...Respectfully, G. Thomas Samartino, M.D...
...Scott's electric girdle for men...
...c) a general belief that Western moral ideals are altruistic nonsense...
...Muffet" in the March issue, Vol...
Vol. 6 • June 1973 • No. 9
