There Are Monsters Under Lyman Orton’s Bed

There Are Monsters Under Lyman Orton’s Bed

I don’t usually bother writing about op-ed pieces or letters to the editor because (a) who reads them, anyway? and (b) that way lies madness. The temptation is ever present (take, for example, “Farmer” John Klar’s recent lament about grade inflation at Harvard, a topic of conservative whingeing since at least the 1970s), but I do try to avoid it. And yet I’m making an exception for Lyman Orton’s recent letter to VTDigger because it just takes th…