Larry Tuttle

Dear HCN, Few historians make Westerners more uncomfortable than Bernard DeVoto. Ed Marston’s Aug. 25, “Squishy-soft processes – hard results” article brings to mind one of DeVoto’s stinging bromides: “The West does not really want to be liberated from the system of exploitation that it has always violently resented. It only wants to buy into […]

Dear HCN, “A treatise on columnist Alexander Cockburn,” (HCN, 5/11/98), seems to be Jon Margolis’ search for a journalistic Viagra. So envious is Margolis that he lashes out the gawky bewailment: “Cockburn has been abusing reality for decades …” That’s bad? I hope someone has, or will, say the same about me. Margolis’ gripes range […]

Dear HCN, As an environmentalist, I was surprised at Ed Marston’s conclusion in his recent HCN, essay (-How to turn lemonade into lemons,” March 21) that “the goal of environmentalism was never to achieve a cultural revolution.” Silly me. I thought I was part of a social movement with a goal of enacting fundamental social […]