Dear Editor
Dear Editor Neoconservatives As always, I enjoyed reading Robert Nisbet ("The Wealth of Irving Kristol," NL, June 19). And as usual, I disagree with his position. It would be nice to think that...
...But a point of disagreement: if the mass of Americans are either callous or immune to social and economic inequality, I find it apt that intellectuals "brood...
...Arlington, Va...
...Joseph Hammerman...
...Indeed, egalitarianism has an abhorrent side...
...Schorr says that Colby, in his portrait of Angleton, has brought into focus the counterintelligence syndrome in American life...
...It is known that Russian agents were in high positions in the U.S...
...Alas for such as myself, the contemporary evidence is that the students in our best colleges have, as in the 1950s, turned away from social causes in favor of concentration upon their own careers...
...A whole flock of new periodicals have joined the Public Interest, Commentary and the National Review on the intellectual Right...
...It would be nice to think that Irving Kristol and Nisbet himself represented a brave intellectual minority holding the fort against the assaults of egalitarians, social engineers and planners who dominate the graduate schools and the high-class media...
...I believe the occasional threat by Peking to make a move is more a test of how far we can be pushed than anything else...
...There is no indication that the Chinese Communists would sacrifice their still relatively new relationship with the U.S., which in spite of the small amount of trade involved is of extreme importance to Peking...
...Pomona, N.Y...
...If so, why not state this directly...
...corporations, alter ego individuals, must be more responsive to the commonwealth...
...Though we may sympathize with the native Taiwanese, we have apparently made our peace with the declaration of both the Communist and Nationalist Chinese that Taiwan is a province of China...
...In short, I have the feeling that they will destroy our present relationship...
...now George P. Brockway ("A Word for Taiwan," NL, June 19) writes that "it would be an outrage to help destroy" the present situation there...
...Therefore, we should not be surprised if one of these years—when the indigenous Taiwanese nationalist movement presents a real danger to the Nationalist Chinese on the island—the current Taipei rulers approach Peking for a settlement rather than surrender to the natives...
...Elliott A. Cohen Taiwan Scenario We used to hear from time to time about the immorality of our "abandoning" Taiwan...
...businessmen cannot be blamed for all societal ill...
...Russian agents held high-level positions in the British and West German intelligence agencies...
...It is my conviction that this problem will be resolved without our abandoning or destroying Taiwan, and that the less we do the better...
...I would much rather have suspicious people like Angleton in top positions in the CIA than people like Colby...
...The best way to reduce the paranoia Schorr refers to is to identify, and prosecute, foreign agents in the U.S...
...New York City Robert Lekachman Underdog Robert Nisbet makes a substantially good defense of Irving Kristol...
...I do agree with Nisbet on one point: Some of the credit (or blame) for these neoconservative gains does justly attach itself to Irving Kristol...
...This scenario may appear outrageous, but it is completely feasible in the context of Chinese history, where 180-degree turnarounds of bitter adversaries to make common cause against a third enemy have occurred quite regularly...
...It is as fashionable at Harvard and Yale to be an intellectual conservative as once it was to be a liberal or radical...
...New York City Walter A. Sheldon Counterintelligence In his review ("Without Cloaks or Daggers," NL, June 5) of former CIA Director William Colby's book, Daniel Schorr quotes Colby as saying he fired former counterintelligence chief James Angle-ton because, among other things, Angleton had irresponsibly tagged two CIA officers as Russian agents...
...and the new class—contesting for power —may be hopelessly Utopian (an unrealistic level of aspiration...
...After all, noblesse oblige—someone must lead the way with an initial reformative idea and posturing...
...government...
...government during the 1930s and '40s...
Vol. 61 • July 1978 • No. 15
