Letters

Letters

Editors: Alfred Kazin (“They Made It,” Dissent, Fall 1988) suggests that I find the legal execution of innocents “acceptable” in the implied sense of “unobjectionable, “wherefore I am despicable. This is an adscititious misinterpretation. In the context “acceptable” meant “predictable” or “factually correct” as the prediction of X murders in N.Y.—or the assertion that they occurred—would be. A literary critic should have been able to figure that out—had he wanted to.

ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
New York, N.Y.