Francine du Plessix Gray and Ken Kelley replies:

Like many other anguished persons reacting against the violence of the past decade, Ms. Apter expresses her interest in “experiencing permanent peace.” As American writers who have spoken out numerous times in the past years for nonviolence, we suggest that the most important single factor in any community’s search for achieving peace is a competence for self-criticism; and that Ms. Apter’s inability to censure the attempted murder of a critic by two of her colleagues specifically manifests that blind obedience and that inaptitude for self-judgment which are at the heart of history’s most violent commitments.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/01/24/knowledge-of-the-guru-1/