CORRESPONDENCE
THE WRIGHT STUFF The Editors suggest a congressional investigation of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape allegation against President Bill Clinton (“Juanita Broaddrick and Us,” March 15). While this might...
...Michael Russo Commack, NY WINNERS DON’T WHINE Thanks to Juanita Broaddrick and all the other Clinton scandals, the fraudulent feminists have been revealed, as Charles Krauthammer points out (“Defining Feminism Down,” March 15...
...It has always been a source of amazement to me how faculty members— especially those on the Left like my old literature professor—can be very deft at making the kind of distinction Caldwell identifies as long as they are defending “art for art’s sake...
...Persecuting from the victim’s position is a powerful tool, as the National Organization for Women has demonstrated, and it usually comes with a hidden agenda...
...ARNOLD BEICHMAN STANFORD, CA BOOM AND BUST Lee Harriss Roberts’s article on the 401(k) boom was about as wrongheaded as it gets, because it ignored the risks inherent in those plans (“The 401(k) Boom,” March 1...
...They take the money out and spend it...
...ALLAN J. FAVISH ARLINGTON, VA PILLAGING VALUES Noemie Emery trenchantly demonstrates that feminists, having promised equality and progress, have delivered nothing more than imperious rhetoric and dissimulation nonpareil (“Just Rape,” March 15...
...Judge Susan Webber Wright, who presided over the Paula Jones case, is deciding whether she should initiate contempt proceedings against President Clinton because of his alleged perjury at his deposition in that case, which was conducted in Judge Wright’s presence...
...The problem is that a defined-contribution plan is exactly that: The contribution is defined, but the outcome is not...
...TRISHA MELROSE LOUISVILLE, CO...
...This is because they do not view these things as rocksolid principles to be upheld, but rather as weapons in the war against their political enemies...
...So why isn’t Norman Podhoretz an ideological orphan, he who also moved from left to right...
...They take the money out and spend it...
...This is the result of having replaced defined-benefit pensions with defined-contribution plans ten years ago...
...What ever made so many people fall for the idea that a credible movement could be rooted in victimization...
...was enamored of a number of Pound’s associates, including Wyndham Lewis...
...ROBERT GARVY PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL NO REST FOR THE FATIGUED In his “Doctored Letters,” Tucker Carlson refers to a textbook on abnormal psychology which includes an entry on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Casual, March 15...
...Aside from a single mention, “Oh yeah...
...The integrity of her own courtroom, as well as that of the nation, depends upon her doing so...
...In Japan a defined benefit would look pretty good to most people, compared to what they can purchase with whatever might be left of their investments...
...The cost estimate so far: $18 billion...
...According to a recent article published in the Annual Review of Medicine, CFS “is an illness characterized by activation of the immune system, various abnormalities of several hypothalmicpituitary axes, and reactivation of certain infectious agents” including a variety of viruses...
...Defined-contribution plans have a place in retirement planning, but that place is as a supplement to the definedbenefit base, or as an alternative vehicle where a defined-benefit opportunity does not exist...
...Mutual fund fees are typically far higher than fees charged by managers of defined-benefit assets...
...This essentially guarantees that retirement-income security, the 30 Finally, defined-contribution plans are typically two or three times more expensive to operate than defined-benefit plans...
...It just proves what Norman Podhoretz says in Ex-Friends: In the world of ideas, it is not impossible for some intellectuals to maintain friendships with those who ought to be their enemies “provided the things they disagree about are not all that important to them...
...This way, Rogan can use her “soft” vote against her...
...If 401(k) plans replace the defined-benefit alternative, our nation will experience a retirement-income debacle sometime in the future...
...Really...
...CFS is an equal opportunity physical illness which strikes both liberals and conservatives alike...
...These costs reduce net returns and should not be ignored...
...Also, not being a reader of French, Greek, or Italian, I was constantly referring to the footnotes, which usually filled half the page...
...Writing is a means of communication...
...For me, the reading experience was another matter...
...The ultimate goal is not justice or consistency, but power, and the Democratic party has become an institution whose sole purpose is to seize and control the powers of government at any price...
...Dianne Feinstein has demonstrated she will not deliver on that count...
...The Japanese market is down to 14,000 from about 40,000...
...Pound supposedly elevated poetry by making it more complex and adding foreign elements...
...She accurately points out the hypocrisy of the president’s defenders in the press and politics, but she assumes that these same people might in the future refrain from blaming someone else for the beastly behavior in which the president has apparently engaged...
...This essentially guarantees that retirement-income security, the 30 An even bigger problem with 401(k) plans is the fact that according to a study by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, 72 percent of participants who change employers do not roll over their plans...
...He was a Nazi,” there wasn’t much said about Pound’s politics, which did not matter because of his “brilliance...
...An even bigger problem with 401(k) plans is the fact that according to a study by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, 72 percent of participants who change employers do not roll over their plans...
...Lewis published Blast, the voice of vorticism, the obscure artistic movement that assembled such artists and writers as Pound, Ford Maddox Hueffer (later to call himself Ford Maddox Ford), Rebecca West, and Gaudier Brzeska...
...That is what is happening in England now where three million people have lost their retirement nest eggs and are demanding that the government replace them...
...It contained the lines: “Come, let us on with the new deal, / Let us be done with Jews and Jobbery, / Let us SPIT upon those who fawn on the JEWS for their money, / Let us out to the pastures...
...Judge Wright has the power and authority to fully investigate Broaddrick’s charge by compelling testimony and the production of other evidence...
...The talk was always about his aesthetics, which escaped my appreciation...
...If Clinton raped Broaddrick, then he committed perjury in that deposition when he said that “in my lifetime I’ve never sexually harassed a woman...
...Eric Mayforth Houston, TX Noemie Emery misses the point in her evaluation of the Juanita Broaddrick allegations...
...Unless we have rescinded the business cycle and the stock market’s ups and downs, we can be sure there will come a time when bad markets lead to poor investment outcomes...
...Or Sidney Hook, Theodore Draper, James Burnham, Irving Kristol— need I go on...
...In this case it was leftist politics...
...in English Literature, I got more than my fill of Pound, Eliot, and other “intellectual” poets...
...Where has Roberts been during the last ten years while the stock market of the second largest economy in the world has declined by 65 percent...
...That means that if they have to break campaign-finance laws while decrying their inadequacy, or defend a man who attacks women while pretending to be the party that protects women’s rights, they are more than willing, secure in the knowledge that their friends in the media will not make them pay a price for being morally bankrupt...
...My thesis adviser, a brash young genius with a pedigree from Johns Hopkins University, used to praise Pound’s poetics while glibly passing over the anti- Semitic venom in his works...
...JOHN A. PUMMELL ALEXANDRIA, VA I found Christopher Caldwell’s article on Ezra Pound illuminating because while getting a B.A...
...Does Troy suggest that anyone who moves from left to right inevitably moves into an ideological orphanage...
...In reality, the next time a Republican politician is the butt of an accusation without any foundation or even so much as tells an off-color joke, these same defenders will again be howling for blood...
...Critics who still believe in the probity of the feminist movement should just wait until the predictable hatchet job is done on a cabinet or Supreme Court nominee of the next Republican president...
...These lines, in somewhat modified form, later found their way into the Cantos...
...California voters are liberal, but they prefer consistency from their senators...
...Indeed, this fellow, who once dismissed my defense of Christianity by sniffing, “Wasn’t Joseph Stalin a Christian...
...We can thank Bill Clinton for unscrupulous feminism’s exposure and demise...
...I was annoyed that this over-read jerk was talking over my head...
...I can’t imagine that Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Coco Chanel, or Agatha Christie spent much time whining about how men were thwarting her ambitions...
...But why did anyone ever take feminism seriously...
...One wonders whether the literati forgot that or, perhaps, deliberately wanted us to forget BART D. LEAHY ORLANDO, FL WE’RE ALL ORPHANS NOW Tevi Troy writes that Max Lerner lacked ideological mooring “largely because his move from left to right left him an ideological orphan” (“From Left to Right,” March 8...
...This incident must have occurred quite some time ago, because the hypothesis that CFS is merely a manifestation of an underlying mental disorder has been disproved by a multitude of peer-reviewed medical research studies...
...CHUCK MORALES SANTA MARGARITA, CA BETTER THAN EZRA Christopher Caldwell has it exactly right: Ezra Pound’s apologists have the disquieting habit of separating the man’s art from his ideology, a position they are less inclined to take with contemporary conservative writers (“The Poet as Con Artist,” March 15...
...They will demand that the government provide redress...
...MANON MCKINNON FALLS CHURCH, VA ROGAN’S HEROES Matthew Rees’s article on James Rogan was appreciated, because had Rogan and company allowed Feinstein and her censure gang to prevail, she would have used her “tough” measure as cover in the next campaign (“Rogan’s Run,” March 15...
...While this might be helpful, they fail to mention another venue for such an investigation that has rarely been discussed...
...What will retirees do then...
...In Blast 1, published in 1914, Lewis included a poem by Pound titled “Salutation the Third...
Vol. 4 • March 1999 • No. 27
