Correspondence

Correspondence

I have read most if not all of the press response to Dissent as of this writing, and I think the comments which most deserve study are those expressed in the February issue of Commentary.

I have read most if not all of the press response to Dissent as of this writing, and I think the comments which most deserve study are those expressed in the February issue of Commentary. It is, of course, a hatchet job worthy of
the Stalinist press, and the driving force in it seems to be pure malice. But I think it would be a mistake to conclude from this that none of the points made in the attack are valid.

In particular, I would have to agree that there is manifested in our first issue too much of one fault which has long been a characteristic malaise among radicals—the tendency to impugn the motives of those who disagree with our point of view, especially when their point of view is in many important respects close to ours.