Letters: An offer you cannot refuse

12 November 2007

I'll make a deal with Melissa Steyn ("Not the Not the Monday Paper" 29 October - 11 November 2007): If UCT acquires a decades-long obsessive preoccupation with opposing 'transformation', Not the Monday Paper will gladly devote three issues to lampooning that.

David Benatar Philosophy Department

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