The otherwise fine article by Michael Owen Jones appearing in "The Meanings of Tradition" special issue of Western Folklore (Spring 2000, Vol. 59, No. 2) is marred by an inaccurate and outdated reference to my textbook The Study of American Folklore. Jones begins by...

Michael Meets Mr. Jones Michael Moore, whom Adam Hochschild chose to fire from his job as editor of Mother Jones last Tuesday, is learning to his cost the old rule that the rich are different. They think they can get away with...