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To: tekboy who wrote (27209)	4/26/2002 1:54:48 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Speaking of subscribing to Foreign Affairs, I picked up a copy this morning at my local newstand--my new subscription has not started, for some reason, and skimmed it. One of the letters to the editors is worth the price of admission. Page 183, letters discussing Jadwish Bhagwati's article in the January/February 02 issue entitled "Coping with Antiglobalization", the letter by William Bryan Sorens, from Huntsville, Texas. Wonderful letter, notes that Bhagwati, in noting the criticisms from the left, failed to take note of the criticisms from the right. The left focused, he says, on "globalization", whereas the right focuses its criticism on "globalism." Then he follows that distinction with some fleshed out notions of what each protests. And ends the letter for a request for "a more comprehensive review" of such issues. The letter writer is, as he notes, "an inmate in Texas." My congratulations for printing the letter. No, I don't always read the letters to the editors of anything but I do read the usual non-informed complaints about Derrida. And the blurb about the letters put Derrida and globalization together in the same sentence. I expected to get a chuckle from the familiar misunderstandings of Derrida; instead, the letter referred to in the blurb was quite good. And, better still, the letter just after that was from an inmate. Congrats, again.