Speaker Series - Timothy Lemmer - Former Letters Editor WSJ

November 12 -- Speaker’s Series with Tim Lemmer, Former Letters Editor for the Wall Street Journal. Many of us read the opinion pages of the WSJ daily as well as the Letters to the Editor. Tim was with the Journal for 34 years and editor of the letters page for the last 14 years there. Tim says that it is important to consider ideas with which one is at odds and to engage with the assumptions underlying political issues and points of view. In the article cited below Tim says, “Its fascinating to engage with the people who write us, some famous, some not, but (almost) always with something to teach. While I have a better than average general knowledge of history and politics, I’m always aware that the person who wrote any letter we consider may really know a lot more about the issue at hand than I do.…