Blacksmiths, university presidents, coroners, kibbutzniks, scholars, drop-outs, mayors, ministers and grade-school students—this is just a sample of the hundreds of BAR readers whose letters have appeared in Queries & Comments over the last 13 years. Readers’ letters praise, cajole, complain, cavil, berate, extol, inform and illustrate. We love them, and so do our readers. So we devote far more space to letters than does any other magazine we know. We even include readers’ letters in our index. To inaugurate our 14th year and to say “thank you” to a group as knowledgeable as you are diverse, we offer 7 […]