Dear Editor

...Denver Gregory Lewis Bunny Money This person struggles to keep up with the Joneses, that one doesn't eat meat and threatens to kill anyone who does, this one is a male chauvinist, that one wants to have pornography made a capital crime All men are brothers, I suppose-or should I say all persons are siblings...

...Boston Charles Burke It is all too facile to strike an amused tone at the expense of the women who are trying to fight pornography and what it stands for Perhaps one day the sexism exemplified by Playboy will be as unacceptable socially as, say, anti-Semitism Until that day arrives, feminists will have to endure the superior tone and infuriating mockery of so-called "liberals '. Los Angeles Julie Driscoll...

...Dayton, Ohio Ronald Lambreth Not an Anglophile The admiration everyone seems to have for the British ruling class gets on my nerves at times It's bad enough that public television has turned into an Anglophile's romp with piffle like The Duchess of Duke Street and Brideshead Revisited Now we are treated to another entire book about the exploits of mane English aristocrats, this time in Kenya I am referring to James Fox' H hue Mischief, reviewed by Tom Graves ("Murder Among the Colonials," NL, June 13) It speaks volumes about the decline of the British Empire that the demise of a sodden rake like Josslyn Hay could become an obsession tor so many people...

...Dear Editor Nuclear War The debates over strategic weapons that Barry Gewen discusses in his review of Harold Brown's Thinking About National Security Defense and Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World are largely irrelevant ("Strategies for Survival," NL, April 18) The U S and the USSR each advise cutbacks in the other's atomic arsenal, while increases on both sides continue Their statistical analyses sound rational, but the premise is false The assumption is that a large increase in destructive potential will force the enemy to surrender...

...Brockway's appreciative comments on John Kenneth Galbraith, for example, were excellent ("Rereading Galbraith," NL, June 13) They reminded me of the wrangling that greeted the publication of The Affluent Society Much of the controversy centered on Galbraith's observations about advertising, about "the contriving of wants" in order to increase production Galbraith's case is convincing, and yet even the people who agree with his conception of the role Madison Avenue plays in our economy continue to wrongly believe that consumer choices guide production This myopia simply shows the need for more of the kind of illumination that is shed by Brockway's columns...

...Suppose the Soviet Union suddenly acquired twice as many missiles as we have and secretly launched them Enough of ours would still survive to devastate the entire Soviet Union That capability deters the Kremlin We have thus reached a saturation point, further stockpiling is superfluous The only useful additional expenditure is in the technology of improving missile survivability after an attack...

...It is time we turned to more relevant issues A sound agenda would include preventing accidental atomic war and nuclear pionferation, disposing safely of radioactive waste, thinking carefully about conventional warfare alternatives, not to mention halting wars in the Third World and diverting peasant revolutions from Communist control New York City Richard H Shulman 'Dismal' Pleasures George P Brockway has been one of the most enjoyable writers in The New Leader lately The installments of "The Dismal Science" demonstrate wit, erudition-not that I always agree with him-and a refreshing willingness to question the assumptions that lie behind the experts' arguments...

...The more extreme women's groups have certainly painted themselves into a moral corner with their huffy condemnation of the skin magazines It behooves everyone who lives in the real world-as even the feminists must from time to time-to be tolerant Especially if they are m the business of soliciting funds...

...These were my thoughts upon reading Richard J Margolis' report on the gyrations certain feminists have been going through over accepting money from the Playboy Foundation ("Funding Feminists," NL, May 30...