78809 nsh Regarding article entitled "Culture & Barbarism" by Terry Eagleton ( http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2488 ) It is not acceptable to typeset dashes as indistinguishable from hyphenated words. Here repeating for emphasis: NOT ACCEPTABLE. For example, Terry (one cannot muster the suspension of disdain to address him by his title and surname) pens the following: "The West now stands eyeball-to-eyeball with a full-blooded “metaphysical” foe for whom absolute truths and foundations pose no problem at all-and this at just the point when a Western civilization in the throes of late modernity, or postmodernity if you prefer, has to skate by on believing as little as it decently can." Excepting for a brief moment that this sentence is complete and utter drivel, it causes palpable intellectual discomfort to read the aesthetically and grammatically perverse "... no problem at all-and this ...", perform the double-take required to comprehend that this is supposed to be an em-dash, followed by the longer and more visceral moment of reflection where one must assess the likelihood that any worthwhile ideas might possibly be encountered in continuing to read. Insomuch as the recipients of this message entertain any illusions of acting as editors of a respectable publication, it is overwhelmingly incumbent upon them to redress all such travesties against the written word and honour of intellectual discourse, and do their utmost to prevent their recurrence. Lamenting the necessity of this epistle, [nsh] 3449086954 #swhack None TRUE