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Critique or hatchet job?(Letter to the editor)
SIR: What's the difference between a fair-minded, no-holds-barred critique and a hatchet job? One of them seeks to understand its subject on its own terms, and then to expose it to unrelenting rational scrutiny; the other looks for any means, fair or foul, to injure a subject for which the author has only malice.
Surely no one is in any doubt which description best fits John Russell's extraordinary tirade against Sydney Anglicans ("The Puritan Anglicans of Sydney", March 2007). One hardly knows where to start in dealing with its errors, distortions, historical anachronisms, ...
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