Message from the Editor-In-Chief: The Commie Responds

I must confess that I am thoroughly mystified by Susan Jacobs' recent column in The Stern College Observer. It seems to me an empty diatribe which, although admirable in its obvious emotional urgency, fails to meet the minimal threshold for coherence. If Ms. Jacobs wishes to meaningfully impugn The Commentator, she might consider mentioning what it is specifically that she finds so contemptible about this paper rather than simply declaring that it nefariously subverts every journalistic standard she can conjure up. After probing the depths of Ms. Jacobs' cantankerous outburst in an effort to divine some semblance of forensic integrity amid the stock phrases, I write now to acknowledge my failure. Even Derrida would blanch at this one. No amount of creative deconstructionism can salvage the merit of an argument that relies exclusively on broad inflammatory declarations to the exclusion of a single tangible example in support of its claims.

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Correction: In the printed edition of the last issue of The Commentator, the last three paragraphs of Ben Sandler's column, Visions and Limitatioins, were inadvertantly left off. The complete column is available here.