Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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My God. I now see why Hillary Clinton chose Tim Kaine as her running mate. He's as mendacious and sleazy as she is.

Four of the 10 playoff managers—Bruce Bochy of the San Francisco Giants, Joe Maddon of the Chicago Cubs, John Gibbons of the Toronto Blue Jays, and Jeff Banister of the Texas Rangers—were catchers during their playing days. I expected more.

To the Editor:

Here’s the real reason that polls leading up to the debate showed almost a dead heat: Half of the American people don’t view Hillary Clinton as the most qualified person ever to run for office.

They view her stunning lack of judgment, from her mismanagement of foreign affairs as secretary of state to her reckless handling of email communications as evidence that she lacks the judgment to be commander in chief. They don’t trust her ties to Wall Street and big money.

The presidency is a position that has as a most basic prerequisite the highest level of trust, ethics, integrity and judgment. Polls show that more than half of Americans have concluded that Mrs. Clinton is lacking in these attributes.

The race is close because while some will hold their noses and vote for Mrs. Clinton, others will vote for Donald Trump to voice their objection to this most objectionable candidate, not because they are enthralled with Mr. Trump.

In suggesting that the race is close because “a lot more Americans than we’d like to imagine are white nationalists at heart,” Mr. Krugman willfully ignores the true reasons that the race is so close.

LARRY DICKSTEIN

Livingston, N.J.

Note from KBJ: Paul Krugman is a despicable thug.

This afternoon, at a Shell station in Fort Worth, Texas, I paid $1.999 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. With my Kroger card, it came to $1.899. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?

Next (1977). Some people think of Journey as Steve Perry's band, but he didn't come aboard until the fourth album, Infinity (1978). I love the albums without him as much as the albums with him. Here is a taste of pre-Perry Journey.

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We confess that we find our main result surprising: that is, our across-the-board failure to find evidence for philosophical expertise and reflection in moderating biased moral judgment. We would have thought—we are still inclined to think—that at a high-enough level of expertise people won’t be much swayed by order and framing, at least when they report having stable opinions and are encouraged to answer reflectively. We wouldn’t expect, for example, that Judith Jarvis Thomson or John Martin Fischer would rate Push and Switch equivalently if the scenarios are presented in one order and inequivalently if they are presented in another order. However, if there is a level of philosophical expertise that reduces the influence of factors such as order and frame upon one’s moral judgments, we have yet to find empirical evidence of it.

(Eric Schwitzgebel and Fiery Cushman, "Philosophers' Biased Judgments Persist Despite Training, Expertise and Reflection," Cognition 141 [August 2015]: 127-37, at 136 [parenthetical references omitted])

Note from KBJ: Only a philosopher could think that philosophers are less biased than nonphilosophers.

To the Editor:

Re “Campaign Struggles to Move Past Tax Revelation” (front page, Oct. 3):

Taxes are everyone’s sore spot. We all hate them and try to exploit tax laws to get out of as much as we can. Sometimes using loopholes in the tax laws can get sketchy, but most of us would use them if we had the opportunity.

Now that Donald Trump’s tax history has been acknowledged, can we please move on to more important things? This presidential race seems to be about slandering each candidate and ignoring the big questions of which candidate and his or her platform would be best for our country.

Let’s move on.

COURTNEY CALVERT

Collegedale, Tenn.

Note from KBJ: I must be missing something in this Trump tax business. Is there a single person in the entire country who, upon calculating his or her taxes for the year (taking advantage of every exemption or deduction allowed by law), says, "Although I don't owe the IRS any money, I think I'll send a check anyway"?