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Stroudsburg, Pa.
While I generally find The Nation enlightening, howlers by its writers sadden me. The "famous Jewish sage" to whom Eric Alterman attributes the rejoinder "You may be right" ["Letters," April 18] was that goyish Baltimore wit H.L. Mencken, who replied to people who wrote him with postcards on which only that was written. My grandfather, who admired the curmudgeon, was proud of having one such.
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