Correspondence
Correspondence LAUDING LINUS THE SCRAPBOOK ITEM on Linus Pauling made fun reading but wasn't very accurate ("An A-Pauling Lapse of Judgment," Oct. 18). Compliments of Dr. Pauling, scientific...
...ROBERT P. GEORGE Princeton, NJ ALL STATIONS CONSIDERED LET ME SEE if I have this right: Andrew Ferguson is whining that he can no longer get his classical music fix during morning drive time because his public radio station has opted for state-subsidized news babble instead of state-subsidized Mozart ("Morning Perdition," Oct...
...JOHN KATTLER Baltimore, MD...
...This is what the Linus Pauling exhibit is all about—excellence in teaching, expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge, and the pursuit of peace...
...WBJC is the kind of socialized public radio Ferguson seems to prefer, offering nothing but classical music...
...I have good news...
...Not so bad, even for the Republican agenda...
...Pauling won his second Nobel Prize for opposing atmospheric testing, a position that has been followed by Republican presidents since Nixon...
...ALFRED BALITZER Claremont, CA FAALLING FOR PAT THE SCRAPBOOK was perceptive to note that my view of Pat Buchanan has changed substantially over the past seven years ("Fifth Columnist...
...Most radios in the Washington area are able to pull in the signal of Baltimore's WBJC (91.5...
...Vitamin C is as patriotic as apple pie and a lot better for you...
...If not, I have more good news...
...So, let us keep testing nuclear weapons, but not in the atmosphere where harmful elements can all too easily find their way back into the air, water, and soil of our hometowns...
...Respectable institutions such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, and Tufts have published studies showing the importance of vitamin C for preventing everything from cataracts to cardiovascular disease...
...As the costs and dangers of ill-conceived global interventionism, high levels of immigration, and a trade regime that pushes American workers out of the middle class become more apparent, I expect that the opinions of many of your readers, writers, and editors will change as well...
...Instead of replaying the Cold War when Pauling's name is mentioned, let us celebrate his contributions to a world that he has made safer from pain and fatal illness...
...Doesn't Ferguson support free enterprise...
...There are no hateful commercials, but you do get the usual pledge drives to fill the space between Vivaldi and Beethoven...
...Pauling, scientific inquiry has found significant benefits from vitamin C as a source of antioxidants for combating cancer...
...He can get all the drive-time classical music he wants further down the dial on WGMS (103.5), one of the last radio stations in the country that is privately owned and schedules classical music exclusively...
...Bravo to Kristol and to George Weigel, whose splendid new biography Witness to Hope provided the occasion for Kristol's reflections...
...I believe in peace through strength, and, as a self-identified conservative, have supported every program, including those that often seemed cocka-mamie, because we needed every weapon in our arsenal to beat the Communists...
...So, give us a break— I mean the large number of Americans who stuff themselves silly with vitamin C when it looks like they are coming down with a cold...
...SCOTT MCCONNELL Vienna, VA A MAN FOR ALL AGES WILLIAM KRISTOL'S ARTICLE on the pope is the most insightful and succinct appreciation of the religious, political, and philosophical achievements of John Paul II to have appeared in the secular or religious press ("The Man of Our Age," Oct...
...As to peace, by golly, every time someone mentions peace, conservatives get the collywobbles...
Vol. 5 • November 1999 • No. 7
