Talk:Christopher Lasch
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I added a note qualifying the statement about Lasch's alleged anti-feminism. It may be taken as biased, but I thought there needed to be something to balance the quote--especially since there's so little else in the article.
Maybe Lasch isn't a big name anymore, but the article is totally inadequate. There is next to no mention of the best-selling Culture of Narcissism; his supposed authorship of Jimmy Carter's "malaise speech;" his involved critiques of both the New Left and neo-conservatism; indeed, hardly anything aside from a very hostile characterization by Susan Faludi.--WadeMcR 22:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
As someone who knows little about Lasch but is interested in learning more, I think that it would be great if you made the additions you mentioned to the article. Euchrid 02:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I deleted the external link. Objectively, I think it was fairly biased and poorly researched, referring to an ideological opposition to capitalism and consumerism as "classically leftist" and spouting off other such nonsense. See George Grant's Red Toryism for further information.
There's a serious NPOV problem in the statement that "In fact in many respects Lasch can be considered an anti American." This is an absurd and vague generalization and is offered without any citation. If any significant critic of Lasch called him "anti-American," that can be cited with the critic named. Otherwise this is a pretty classic violation of NPOV. And I heartily second all those who've noted the general inadequacy of this article.--BenA 15:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, who wrote this article. It is really biased. Calling Lasch a "paleoconservative or even a reactionary" and an anti-feminist. Did you even read or understand any of his writings?--Vedvyas 16:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] removed from article
His youth
He was one of my best friends during our ages of about 10 to 14 and then again in our early 20's. I knew him as Kit, not Christopher. He was a very talented baseball player. When I first knew him at about age 10, Kit had already written and scored for a full orchestra an opera named Rumplestiltskin. And it was truly scored for a full orchestra. Kit was an excellent violinist but he was an incredibly good baseball player. He and I lived between the towns of Barrington and Wauconda, Illinois about 40 miles northwest of Chicago. His family lived in a subdivision on a small lake and they owned a canoe which Kit and I sank repeatedly.
When my family moved to St. Louis I discovered that Kit's family had also moved there. We were in our 20's then and had completed our undergraduate years in college. At this point our friendship involved almost endless games of "roofball" which involved throwing a soft rubber ball up onto his family's long small-sloped roof and trying to throw it so noiselessly that the other player would have no idea of where it would land.
Kit was a delightful and cheerful human being and I wanted to share this small bit about him just to offset the sometimes dour copy that is written about him.
By User:Martinj918
- Martin, thank you for the wonderful information. Much of it cannot be used however because of the Wikipedia policy of no original research. If any of that information appears in a biography, we can use it, as long as we can provide citations. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 03:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
