A guest editorial 

Arvid Schulenberger, the late, great KU professor of English of my undergraduate years, used to commiserate with those of us afflicted with a “pathological weakness for words.” Forty-plus years later, still unapologetically afflicted, having toted more boxes of books than flats of furniture from one home to another across the country and back, I find myself questioning the need for a $30 million monument to the printed word presently being touted by many of my fellow bibliophiles. There aren’t many public-good projects that an old unreconstructed liberal can’t embrace. But this one, as presently constituted, is so myopic in its conception and profligate in its use of public resources that it is the exception. Consider this:

Dear Editor,