Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Happy 106th Birthday Dr. Suess


from
NRO:

In his politics, Geisel was a liberal, and his liberalism informed much of his work, especially in his late period (The Lorax is an environmental manifesto, The Butter Battle Book is a call for disarmament). But a couple of his titles were profoundly conservative. Pro-lifers have embraced Horton Hears a Who ("a person's a person no matter how small"). My own favorite is the anti-utopian I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, which I wrote about here.