Mideast Diplomacy

I am glad that Scruton seems to have found his true vocation as a media evangelist because it is difficult to discern in the bigotry, racism and sheer ignorance that spew from his columns any of the marks of the philosopher The Times describes him as. It may be that Scruton’s favored music these days is a rousing version of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” but the rest of us, more responsible and less anachronistic, have to deal with Einstein’s sober reflection, that in an era of mass destruction, religious believers and atheists, Arabs and non-Arabs, alike, have to attempt to understand one another, or we shall all perish.

JOSEPH PRABHU, Professor of Philosophy, Cal State Los Angeles