McDonough misses the true meaning of lecture

TO THE EDITOR:

I’m not typically one to defend others, especially The Daily Tar Heel, but Chase McDonough seems to have missed several points in his own letter to the editor published Wednesday, “Article on Horowitz didn’t capture nature of speech”.

He states that Horowitz was giving an argument for “why students are being defrauded of a proper education in a system where many classes only assign reading from the liberal perspective.” McDonough then claims that the quote “You can’t get a good education if you’re only telling half the story” is an unrelated sentence. I was present for the speech as well and I believe most people would agree that is a suitable summary.

Additionally, when I read McDonough’s quote in the “Conservative Heat” article, I assumed it was implied that he was pleasantly surprised that Horowitz’s comments were not radical. The word “radical,” when it comes to politics, has a fairly clear negative connotation. I understand that McDonough is going to be a little sensitive about having anything he says be representative of the Carolina Review, and I understand that the DTH wants to be as fair and balanced as possible, but I felt that publishing this letter was unnecessary.


Drew Millard
Junior
Communication Studies