If moral support is of any use, consider this letter a huge donation.

May 16, 2011 — If moral support is any use to you, consider this letter a huge donation. In particular, your effort to hold the New York Times’s feet to the fire is an essential aid to curing our ailing democracy. From now on, when reading the Times, I’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for examples of their smug, reflexive centrism.

— George Scialabba (Cambridge, Massachusetts)