Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1949

Carbon of a letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., 150 East 35th Street, New York 16, New York.

May 13, 1960

 

 

 

Dear Bill Buckley:

 

     I have not renewed my subscription to National Review mostly because I have been traveling and it has not been reaching me conveniently.

     If I have any criticism, it will be rather in terms of what the magazine does not undertake rather than against what it accomplishes. Instead of always harking back to the times and liberties we have lost, I would rather see more emphasis on the opportunities and potentials in the development of which we will be blessed, if and when we survive.

     I believe nature — God — has endowed us with potentialities for burgeoning growth and life, both individually and in our non-violent, free-enterprise, golden-rule type of organic solidarity; that creative alternatives are only waiting to be explored and understood whereby we can grow out of our present darkness instead of trying to fight and complain our way out of it.

                            Cordially,

 

SH/m