Volume > Issue > Letter to the Editor: January 2004

January 2004

"Drying Snot"

A little over a year ago I became an NOR subscriber, and have read much of every issue since. What amazes me about your magazine is that, while I very often share your point of view, after reading it I always feel the need to take a bath. The sarcastic vitriol burns and your self-righteous denunciations cling like drying snot. Cancel my subscription.

Christopher Buczek

New York, New York

You May Also Enjoy

Briefly: January-February 1990

Reviews of Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War... Catholic Colleges and Federal Funding... Mother of All Nations: Visions of Mary... Protestant Thought and Natural Science... Virgil Michel: American Catho­lic... The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic

The Underclass, Part IV: Schools & Mentors

One youth says, “I look at those teachers and their books, and I say: man, you’re out in space, and I’m where I am, and there’s nothing between us.”

All Along the Watchtower

Why are we on earth? Because we are summoned. This seems to beg the question, yet Jews and Christians answer just that.