A Reply by Ben B. Seligman

One supposes that when raw nerves are exposed there will be some sort of reaction. All too often such reactions are like the flailing of arms by a patient in a dentist’s chair. Mr. Simon behaves like the patient.

Mr. Simon’s desire to avoid certain facts of life permits him to rank the problems of our society in an extraordinarily orderly fashion, somewhat like the display of tinned food in a supermarket. Liberals may then behave like consumers in an economics textbook by s...