July 13, 2000

Simon's Legacy Deserves No Praise

To the Editor:

Leslie Lenkowsky's defense of the late William Simon's systematic efforts to fund academics who agreed with his own free-market ideology, and to defund those who disagreed, is extremely flimsy ("William Simon's Legacy to Philanthropy," June 15).

It comes down to the claims, first, that leaders of the philanthropic world whom Simon attacked for funding the alleged enemies of capitalism were "defensive,"

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