Letters to the Editor

...I suggest that you continue to exercise the same honesty—bill yourself as The "Progressive...

...Dennis Myers Reno, Nevada More Gorbachev I loved the Mikhail Gorbachev interview (by Amitabh Pal, December issue...

...Will Hussein's gang retake power—or perhaps fundamentalist Shiites...

...But now we find that same magazine bemoaning the lack of ink given to Kucinich...

...Tom Powell Olympia, Washington Slighting the Greens and Kucinich Has the current race among Democrats for the White House really become a triumph of progressivism as you claim ("Up for Grabs," Comment, January issue...

...While I can never achieve the accomplishments of my heroes of the gay civil rights movement, I do everything I can to wave our rainbow banner and march in the column of freedom, fairness, and civil equality for everyone...

...Army pulls out, then what...

...He is a national treasure...

...That does not, therefore, make him a bigot, let alone someone of the same mold as those who once fed gay persons to dogs or burned them at the stake...

...It is an inherently conservative function, but not only so...

...a prescient pantoum" (December issue) both brought a tear to my eye and educated me...

...The Progressive itself must sadly share responsibility for this: In the last year, none of its issues included a single article or interview focusing on the Greens to familiarize readers with their views...

...Please include your city and state...

...Isaac Baker Brooklyn, New York Howard Zinn said it all...

...It isn't costly at all...

...My only criticism would be length, or lack thereof...

...the article mentioned above uses quotes when referring to the "Clean Skies" and "Healthy Forests" legislation...

...It's hard to appear electable when you get precious little ink or air time," you admitted in "Up for Grabs," before moving on to fawn over Howard Dean...

...Letters may be e-mailed to: editorial@progressive.org...

...Donald Cavanaugh South Palm Beach, Florida And Blame I was surprised to discover the very venomous tone of Eduardo Galeano's article "The Heresy of Difference...

...Most Americans still don't seem to understand that everyone's interest is served by everyone else being secure, comfortable, and productive...

...I thought it was the height of irony that a magazine could call itself The Progressive, extol Kucinich as the most progressive candidate, and yet refuse to grant him decent coverage...

...The man obviously has a lot on his mind...

...Having been in the coming out process for only a little over ten years, I must express my deepest gratitude to "these scorned men and women, these rare souls, [who] are generating some of the best news history has ever seen...

...Douglas Sauer Little Rock, Arkansas Zinn's Logic I know you worship the ground Howard Zinn walks on, but didn't you notice the glaring omission in his article urging U.S...

...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness, and may appear either in the magazine or on its web page...

...Had it not been for these fearless people who "are overturning one of the most sinister heresies of the past," I would probably be dead now—either from illness or suicide...

...All polls show more than 50 percent approval ratings for Bush on a variety of topics, both domestic and foreign...

...is too modest in his claim that free higher education for all who would use it isn't prohibitively costly ("Majoring in Debt," January issue...

...The matter-of-fact tone is in striking contrast with its topic, underscoring the banality of television's treatment of our recent wars and its absurd sanitizing of battle...

...Lois Bergeson Missoula, Montana Howard Zinn writes, "The nation is ready for an all-out challenge to the Bush Administration...

...The facts scream otherwise: Most Democratic hopefuls are neither progressive nor peace-oriented...

...By virtue of his office, the Pope acts as guardian of a moral and doctrinal tradition amid the changes and challenges of history...

...Chris Bryant via e-mail The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...

...Will there be civil war...

...Letters to the Editor Public Education for All I am a public school teacher in Florida and can attest from firsthand experience to the right's attack on public schools through vouchers ("Why the Right Hates Public Education," by Barbara Miner, January issue...

...Bennett Muraskin Parsippany, New Jersey If no Democratic candidate gives the speech that Howard Zinn wrote, then Zinn would have my vote for President...

...Media indifference and hostility, however, have so far slowed its ability to attract support...

...Public tax dollars should never be redirected to private schools, especially at a time when public school funding in Florida has been cut...

...Who, here, is demonizing whom...

...On the question of gay marriage, this Pope may someday prove to have been on the wrong side of history...

...He would easily be elected if the election were held this week...

...withdrawal from Iraq ("The Logic of Withdrawal," January issue...

...Scott Kilhefner Cape Coral, Florida Adolph L. Reed Jr...

...Thank you for your wise words...

...If the U.S...

...In my state, public education has been sacrificed by Jeb Bush and his Republican cronies in the state legislature...

...It is no wonder that there is scant enthusiasm for a third party challenge...

...Gordon M. Sites Sakura City, Japan Thanks to the editors of The Progressive for spending an entire five sentences on the "electability" of Dennis Kucinich, whom The Progressive has repeatedly recognized as the most progressive candidate...

...It is sometimes so discouraging to be living in the United States at this time, but you have inspired me to keep going in the hope that this sad period of neocon rule will not last forever, and the will of the people will once again be known...

...Marc Goodman-Bryan Memphis, Tennessee Praise for Galeano Kudos and thanks to Eduardo Galeano for "The Heresy of Difference" in the January issue...

...Driven, it seems, by a righteous indignation, Galeano engages in precisely the kind of broad stereotyping and personal demonizing he would rightly condemn when leveled at homosexual persons...

...It could have been longer...

...Her line "As each mother is listening for her son's voice" brought the tear, while "pantoum" sent me to my dictionary, where I learned that it is "a verse form composed of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines are repeated as the first and third lines of the following quatrain...

...As a fifty-something gay man, I spent all of my childhood and most of my adult life in a closet that was designed and constructed by my "good" Catholic parents and family...

...The loss of lifelong contributions to economic growth and the public treasury is much greater than any educational expense...

...I used to read him in The Washington Post and was disappointed when they parted company...

...This very welcome fact would never have been added to what I know about poetry absent Munch's remarkable image of a soldier's mother fearfully and hopefully watching television coverage of war, worried beyond description about her daughter or son...

...it's economical...

...Ernst Kallenbach Gainesville, Florida Extraordinary Poetry Catherine Munch's extraordinary poem "Carpe Kabul, Carpe Baghdad, Carpe...

...The Green Party, on balance, still seems the best alternative for the progressive voter...

...Whom is Zinn trying to kid...

...D. H. Kerby Los Angeles, California Hentoff a Treasure I want to thank you for Nat Hentoff's columns...

...The Progressive has always recognized abuses of language when committed by the right...

...Will the country break apart...

...Don't you think these questions needed to be answered—or at least discussed by Zinn...

...Instead, I have been able to overcome society's oppression to the point that I now celebrate being gay...