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...proves to be not only spinner of bizarre and hunting fantasy but a sharp social observer as well. Her descriptions of New Zealand suburbanization, of California as public confessional booth, of television and religious fakers convey a reality as urgent as Alice Thumb's creativeschizophrenia. -R.Z. Sheppard...
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Hook vs. Wills Your book reviewer R.Z. Sheppard tells us that Garry Wills [April 23] "refuses to accept the free market of ideas where one opinion is worth as much as another." If so, Wills clearly does not understand what a free market in ideas is. In no market, free or not, is one thing worth intrinsically as much as another, even if their prices are the same. In a free market of ideas, one opinion can be as freely expressed as another-but this has no bearing whatsoever on its worth...
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Westerners like R.Z. Sheppard, in his review of Vladimir Bukovsky's book [March 26], seem to be absolutely unable to grasp the fundamental difference between Western and Soviet political thought. To Marxists, socialism and Communism (or Sovietism, for that matter) are not freely chosen or choosable political stances but scientifically established laws of history. Dissenting, like disputing physics or logic, therefore must be a symptom of mental illness. Thus, in good conscience, the Soviets have no other place for dissenters but the nuthouse...