The July 28 letter to the editor titled "Close to Absolute Good" was attributed to Virginia Postrel, the editor of Reason magazine, who did not write it. The letter was written by Jeff A. Taylor of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who e-mailed it to Postrel, who forwarded it to her Washington editor, who mistakenly forwarded it to THE WEEKLY STANDARD as a "letter to the editor" from Postrel on Reason stationery. Reason regrets the error.