Thanks for that!

By ADRIAN TAHOURDIN

A TLS subscriber writes to us (by snail mail) from Ann Arbor, MI: ���Dear TLS: Because the recent vote to leave the EU seems to me to raise serious doubts about Great Britain���s Collective Intelligence, and because for many years I have considered the TLS an embodiment of that Collective Intelligence, it is time for me to cancel my subscription���.  

This is surely an unforeseen consequence of the Brexit result. Voters should have thought of the implications for the TLS���s subscriber base before choosing to vote Leave.

The letter writer goes on: ���I am quite aware that we in America are in some danger of committing a comparable Collective Stupidity. You, and I, must share the blame if we don���t speak out wherever possible. Good Luck, . .���.

Should the unthinkable happen in the US in November, I urge all British subscribers to the New York Review of Books ��� in a spirit of solidarity ��� to cancel their subscriptions forthwith!