Letters to the Editor

It would take something really bad to make me have any sympathy for Gary Bauer, but Dan Savage’s piece on him [“Stalking Gary Bauer,” Feb. 9] managed to achieve that. I guess I’ve read a more puerile and silly newspaper article on a candidate before, but I can’t remember when. Aside from being poorly written […]

After reading Hal Crowther’s column “Unwired: A millennial manifesto” [Jan. 26], I would suggest that his flirtation with the Luddites’ technophobic view is shared by more than just his generation of blue-blooded English majors and “the poor,” on whose behalf he so beneficently purports to speak. I’ve seen plenty of fearfulness in the face of […]

In your Feb. 17 issue, you reprinted an article on the Duke English department from Lingua Franca, complete with photo captions of your own devising. I hope that you will have the courtesy to acknowledge that almost everything you have concocted in your comment about me is erroneous. Far from being one of my friend […]