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Robert Lekachman’s review of my The Bard of Savagert: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory (Fall 1978) manages to combine intellectual distortion with moral complacency. Perhaps it is wise not to reply to reviews, bad or good, but when one finds a reviewer advising an author to do the very thing he tried to do—”excise speculation about the connections between Veblen’s personality and his opinion,” as I did in my critcisms of David Riesman’s psychoanalytic interpretation—one can only conclude that Lekachman chose to give his own discourse on Veblen rather than read the book carefully and critically. How else does one explain his clinching, if cryp...