This is the first issue in which, outside of a few articles, I have been wholly disappointed. The topic is incredibly important, and yet the coverage lacked depth and almost any analytics. When you start quoting the National Review, printing on only half the page in huge font, and with articles mostly about Hollywood and the music industry, I wonder what happened to the Jacobin that usually can critically evaluate complex issues and get to the core. Perhaps this is a break that is being taken after your thorough efforts with Iraq and conspiracy of capitalism. I’m all for shorter workweeks, but perhaps just do three quality issues a year and leave the tabloid version to the tabloids.

 — Glen Jones, Sacramento, CA

Your recent issue on elders and the policies of neglect that adversely affect us was excellent and very badly needed. Our movement doesn’t pay enough attention to what is a major component of capitalism’s decline: the marginalization and jettisoning of people in their elder years. Since we are over 35 percent of the population in both the United States and Canada, and we are the population most often facing imminent life crisis and death as a result of social policies, our movement should not only pay attention but incorporate our issues in its overall program.