In the final analysis, what we may need the most in such matters is neither rubber stamping nor mechanical dismissal but something in between--understanding, not attitudinizing. Bob Roberts is currently being heralded as a mechanical dismissal of a certain kind of rubber-stamping that helps us all to attitudinize to our heart's content, but personally, I'd rather celebrate it for what it does for our understanding. Which is a lot.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
septiembre 25, 1992