Word: walkerism
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...Case of John Walker...
What John Walker did by leaving his California home and eventually fighting with the Taliban is treason [THE PRISONER, Dec. 17]. He was willing to bear arms for an organization that wants to destroy the U.S. I admire the restraint of those who captured him. I believe that if I had come upon him in Afghanistan, we wouldn't have had to face the problem of what to do with him. MELVIN HOUX Mancos, Colo...
...convinced that Walker has no idea what it means to be an American. KARLA MCLEAN Nipomo, Calif...
...Walker is the Patty Hearst of 2001, pursuing an elusive, utopian vision that puts faith above humanity and ignores reality. He must now face that reality and accept responsibility for his actions. DON URNER Walnut Creek, Calif...
Previous Jefferson lecturers have been Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison, Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy, Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and Lionel Trilling...