Harvard Magazine Provides Political Forum

To the editors:

I'm glad Alan E. Wirzbicki ("Bleeding-Heart Conservatives", Sept. 24, 1999) read the cover story about Harvard conservatives in the current Harvard Magazine. For the record, the article "doesn't even pretend to be objective." It is a signed, personal piece of writing, just as was, for example, Andrew Tobias's "Gay Like Me," the cover story for January-February 1998, an account of the experience of being homosexual at the College and elsewhere in the University.

These are deliberately expressions of opinion and perspective by their authors (who are so identified for precisely that reason), and the people they interview. And they elicit passionate expressions of opinion in the magazine's letters column--for several issues following the Tobias piece, and, to be sure, in the November-December 1999 magazine, which we are now preparing for publication.

I welcome as many undergraduate readers as possible--you can access the magazine at www.harvard-magazine.com--since it becomes your magazine once you graduate, and you might as well join the debates now.

John S. Rosenberg

Sept. 24, 1999

The author is the editor of Harvard Magazine.

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Concern for Conservatives

To the editors: