Mr. van den Haag had prompted this discussion by a letter to Mr. Buckley in which he alleged, as he puts it here, that "major publishers ... all seem, without conspiring, to have exactly the same opinion: Let's not publish anything on black-white intelligence differences; let's not publish anything that feminists may take offense at; let's not publish anything that homosexuals would take offense at." Mr. Osnos stoutly disagrees, and we're off and running. PO: "I can tell you, sitting here as a representative of a major publisher, that it is incredibly hard to get your books, even your best books sometimes, reviewed. . . . The New York Times is inundated with books. There are roughly 45,000 trade books published in the United States each year, and about 5,000 of them can actually get reviewed one way or another in the New York Times. That means that 40,000 books don't."