I enjoyed Jigs Gardner’s “Letter From Cape Breton Island” (January 1992) on the subject of “The New Utopians.” He correctly states that environmentalists are openly Utopian, and as such are full of “cocksure ignorance” in support of Utopian views. A true Utopian has boundless faith in his dream world, and any challenge to that dream is regarded as an example of the unworthiness of mankind to even exist. “We must put civilization in reverse, before it is too late! All we have to do is take our orders and control our every action to be in ‘harmony’ with the latest fad—population reduction, primitive hardship, and a short, ugly, starving, disease-ridden, preyed-upon ‘existence.'” Of course, the Greens would have said it better. As to Mr. Gardner’s liberal arts education, he should not apologize. His letter shows he is way ahead of the mob and has the basics of an inquiring mind, which is the foundation of all liberal arts curricula.

        —John A. Fletcher
St. Paul, MN