Bravo to Joshua Kaufman for his courageous column ("Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists," Opinion, Oct. 15,1996). As a longtime Peninsula reader, I am not particularly surprised by the juvenile, casual brutality evinced by the editors of that publication.
After wading through the turgid prose of Peninsula's most recent issue, I realized that it attracts particularly rabid ideologues who seem utterly unable to infuse any of their pieces with even a hint of wit, irony or intelligence. It is that failure, not just their offensive rantings, which constitutes the real obscenity. --Lorraine A. Lezama The writer is a former Crimson editorialist.
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