This response is utter nonsense, of course, with no factual basis for any of its contentions whatsoever. What dismays me, about this reply and several others I have read among the comments on Persuasion is how irrational, angry, fact-free, and conspiratorial they are. I thought Persuasion was meant to be a forum for those of us who think of themselves as liberals still, men and women who still adhere to the core values of the Enlightenment, knowing all the while that even the values of reason and clear thought have their limits. But apparently a number of its readers, certainly among those who comment on its pages, have devolved into the darkness, irrationalism, and resentments of the extremes, especially those of the authoritarian right. I recall the great Lionel Trilling's admonition, "the moral obligation of intelligence." That is what far too often I find woefully lacking here. I will say no more on that matter.