Dear Editor
Dear Editor Lenga Predicament The cautious environmentalism expressed by Arthur Shapiro in his article on Chile's lenga predicament ("Harvesting Chile's Lenga Forests," NL, March 10) is...
...Assuming it has been a year or so since the last such cigarette price hike, and given the current inflation rate of around 3 per cent, the real cost of cigarettes would appear to have declined ever so slightly—just as Adam Smith would have predicted...
...Dear Editor Lenga Predicament The cautious environmentalism expressed by Arthur Shapiro in his article on Chile's lenga predicament ("Harvesting Chile's Lenga Forests," NL, March 10) is admirable, but a question is raised late in the piece when the author declares that logging will transform Tierra del Fuego's groundcover to "worthless heath scrub...
...One shouldnot misuse the medium through which one works...
...Until the...
...is capable of recognizing how its funds should be spent, it should not receive a penny...
...editor and publisher, The World & I Hollow Core George P. Brockway seems to believe that the decision of RJR Nabisco to raise its cigarette prices by four cents a pack constitutes a refutation of conventional economic theory ("The Lie of Supply and Demand," NL, March 24...
...Perhaps the harvesting of Chile's lenga trees will signal a cultural renaissance—or naissance— for Tierra del Fuego...
...by panels that are attempting to change our political or religious perspectives through the arts...
...Toronto, Ontario Gregory Binswanger Arts Obfuscation Your "Between Issues" column in the April 7 issue misses the point of why some of us would like to get rid of the National Endowment for the Arts, at least under the present rules...
...As a good conservative—and an old-style liberal, although not libertarian—I also believe it is a function of government to improve taste and also morals...
...He is, of course, referring to nominal dollars...
...Can an economy based on sheep herding, the development of small principalities and ducal courts, the independent invention of the printing press, and eventually a transFuegian autobahn (by, say, 2050) be far behind...
...Smokers—who are willing to trade off health and longevity for the doubtful pleasures of the weed— may fail to satisfy the rationality postulates...
...The fact is that the Endowment has been used The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Suppose, however, that a contemporary Picasso whose daughter had been raped by a black man painted a brilliant portrait entitled "Rapist Niggers...
...Brooklyn, New York Melvin Katz...
...A dramatic object lesson can be found in the similar climates and soils of Northern Europe," Shapiro states, trumpeting that the conifer forests of that prosperous region are now "lost to heather moor.1' What a pity if Tierra del Fuego suffered a similar fate...
...The arts establishment with its blather about free speech either misses the point also or is deliberately obtuse...
...Those who desire to divide and change perspectives should look to non-governmental funding...
...I also believe very strongly that if we wish to delegitimate some sectors of society, it should be done through the political process and not through government endowments or foundations...
...Moreover, neoclassical economics presupposes rational consumers if market-clearing price mechanisms are to work...
...When it is prepared to proceed ethically, it should get substantial support...
...This is divisive and should not be supported by government short of a social or cultural consensus...
...Chicago, III Morton A. Kaplan Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emeritus, The University of Chicago...
...This is really a matter of old-styled ethics, which seems to get little play in the contemporary world...
...Much as I am stimulated and provoked by Brockway's columns, mightn't it be a bit hasty of him to extrapolate from this example to the existence of "a hollowness at the core of our society...
...We seem to have lost the sense of outrage when an NEA-funded exhibit shows a painting of a figure of Christ in a bottle of urine...
...The arts establishment has so obfuscated this issue that almost no one seems to understand it, certainly not Gingrich...
Vol. 80 • May 1997 • No. 8
