Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criacism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. TYLER May I clear up two points that, judging from reader response, must...
...New York City Salvatore Di Meo CARR I think that E.H...
...Warbucks...
...TYLER May I clear up two points that, judging from reader response, must have been murky in my series...
...I am talking about the kind of devices that allow men who earn a million to pay nothing...
...Although the poor-black-young cannot go it alone and win, they are vital for "the margin of victory to a liberal coalition that includes labor," to quote from my installment "Playing Poor Politics" (NL, August 18...
...His authoritarian ideas are presented with a "progressive" rationale, but they in fact resemble plebiscitary fascism...
...First, as to taxing unearned income ("Dear Editor," NL, August 18), the thrust of my argument is to get at the top wealth of America that presently shirks its tax responsibility...
...Second, as for David Williams' point ("Dear Editor," NL, September 1J on the vote of the young, the black, and the poor, I (and Richard Scammon) have no disagreement with Williams...
...But it is also true that precisely because no one cares about Genghis, the study of Mongolian expansion is today left to arcane scholars...
...You're just Orphan Annie . . . prior to the adoption...
...The first is that many of the so-called Left-wing critics of liberalism are really Rightists...
...Theodore Lowi, whose book The End of Liberalism is reviewed in your September 1 issue by Richard E. Morgan ("Impatient Democrat"), certainly belongs to this group...
...Agenda for the Democrats...
...Whatever the shortcomings of the efforts of Joseph Papp and company, the fact remains that their plays are free—and just about the only plays most people in New York can afford...
...Lowi and others who reject democracy-why you call him an impatient democrat is beyond my understanding—were at least probably lost to the forces of reasonable and humane change in any case...
...I include in this category writers like Jack Newfield, James Kunen and Noam Chomsky...
...Carr, whose book The October Revolution: Before and After has been excellently reviewed by Stephen F. Conen ("Footnotes to Bolshevism," NL, September 1 ), is a very good, and perhaps great writer...
...It is important to note, however, that his indifference to the evils perpetrated by Soviet Communism is manifested not merely in his work as an historian, but also in his editorial writing for the London Times and in his journalism—both positions in which he might very well have hoped to exercise some influence upon daily events...
...New York City Edmund Samuels LIBERALISM Among the unexpected benefits of the current flood of books denigrating liberalism is the revelation that most of the political labels currently in use are utterly irrelevant...
...I am not talking about people who get income from a savings account or even draw dividends from investments—both of which are taxable sources of income...
...The other side of the rejection of liberalism is in my opinion even more dangerous...
...Orville Tarney...
...What with inflation, if there are no subsidies, most of us will simply never be able to see the inside of a playhouse...
...There are two aspects to this discovery...
...please retire early if you wish and enjoy your savings, but please do not use your frugal self as a shield for Mr...
...During the '30s, for instance, Carr was among the most subtle and persuasive advocates of appeasement, arguing that the expansion of German power into Eastern Europe was inevitable, just as he now views as inevitable the depredations of collectivization...
...Another famous English historian has rhetorically asked whether anyone today really cares about the sins of Genghis Khan, implying that in another thousand years the doings of Hitler and Stalin will be equally obscure and irrelevant...
...New York City Gus Tyler ZEIGER Whne 1 sympathize with Henry A. Zeiger's complaints about the recent productions of the New York and Stradord, Connecticut, Shakespeare Festivals ("The Cultural Con Game," NL, September 1), 1 wonder why it was necessary for him to sneer at the idea of public endowment of the theater...
...Given the attitude of the Carrs of this world, they both were inevitable...
...But there are now many political writers who, though obviously liberals in their basic sympathies, have chosen to align themselves with fashion-able radicalism, thereby depriving liberalism of important figures who might help purge it of those who have made "liberal" a term of abuse...
...This of course is probably true...
...Boston, Mass...
...So, dear prol...
...I have a rather strong feeling that the precious irrelevance of so much of contemporary art stems from the fact that its audience is made up primarily of the affluent few...
Vol. 52 • September 1969 • No. 17
