Comments for Memoirs of a Pundit at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 16 out of 16 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 14:42:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-16334 (Quite embarrassed about my earlier rambling comment, but still glad D.W. is here! Hope he stays for life!) - Jacob Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:57:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12760 I once was lost but now I've found, you on The Catholic Thing. Your last column was full of that fearful symmetry thing - beautiful writing with a crushing message. I wonder if these columns, and others that may appear in the blogosphere, will surface on David Warren Online? - Brian Bauld Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:02:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12744 @Paterson-Seymour Although you probably now this, "Miss" Anscombe was married to the renowned Roman Catholic philosopher, Peter Geach, with whom she had three sons and four daughters. She was one of the most gifted philosophers of the twentieth century, a determined defender of her Catholic faith—but not unmarried. She held a Research Fellowship, then a teaching Fellowship, at Somerville College, Oxford. She moved from Oxford to Cambridge in 1970 when she was awarded a Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge—the Chair formerly occupied by Ludwig Wittgenstein. She remained at Cambridge until her retirement in 1986. Although she wrote and published under her maiden name throughout her very prolific career, she was not "Miss" in any way. I write this not so much to correct your post, but to let other readers know more about her. She should be better known by Roman Catholics! - G.K. Thursday Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:46:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12710 David - I have enjoyed your columns for years. In particular I have appreciated your writing on Pakistan and other places in the Muslim world, where you have drawn upon your personal experience in that region. Much of what I read about that area tends to be rather cartoonish. You write with compassion and humanity towards the people who happen to live in those places. - Ben Horvath Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:25:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12707 David, thanks for your witness to the truth over the years. Welcome to The Catholic Thing. I look forward to reading your columns. - Alan Momney Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:44:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12706 Happy days! I found David Warren alive and well and writing about how darn hard it is see Reality. Solzhenitsyn once said (something like) that, who knows, maybe the Big Lie will win out and carry the day - but not through me. Perhaps that is enough. Maybe even all that any of us can do, and you do it very well Mr. Warren. - Peter Boston Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:24:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12704 I miss your reflections, but I'm happy to know that they will occasionally appear on the CatholicThing. Your voice is needed. - Gil Bailie Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:41:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12702 Dear Mr Warren, I regularly read your column at the Ottawa Citizen. You have been one of my favorite writers on the Internet for the past 4 or 5 years. I was very sad to read that you would no longer be writing a column for that paper. Alas, they don't know what they've lost. I will probably never go back to their website again. Although I do not know your personal situation, I hope that you will continue to write and publish in the future. Your clear, witty approach to the silly madness of contemporary life is refreshing to read. There are many accomplished conservative columnists out there, but few have the Chesterton-like wit and charm in their prose that you have. You are clearly a cut above most of the writers on the Internet. At least that's MHO. I am glad that a quality Catholic website like "The Catholic Thing" has begun publishing your pieces. I know you will attract an avid readership here. May God bless you! - G.K. Thursday Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:30:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12701 Mr. Warren, count me as a devoted reader of your Ottawa Citizen columns! I am so happy that I will be able to read your work here. Yes, your commentary has often cheered and encouraged me. - Jeannine Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:57:41 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12700 Well you're the only reason I ever knew about that paper and I'm part of a desired demographic (late 20s and employed with no debt). They better break the most exciting story in the world or I'll never read that paper again but I'm sure there's enough eager leftists and your version of RINOs and libertarians up there to make up for the loss. Anyway you should be a part of a Christian publication. Unfortunately all churches are currently cursed by a generation of members who believe it's better to let their churches die and try to be a hip Christian for the secular world than to build authentic, resilient Christian institutions. What we need more than anything right now is a Christian Microsoft or Google or even more boring things like a Christian McDonalds. That's why I'm going through the border fence every day this week from my apartment in the People's Republic of Berkeley and San Francisco, risking being sent to the gulag in Bakersfield, to eat Chick-fil-A!! - Jacob R Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:51:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12699 Welcome home, Mr. Warren. May you see this new adventure with TAC as Our Lord's gratitude for your fidelity to Truth! I, for one, am grateful for your presence on this blog. God bless! - Janice Belbey Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:46:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12698 As an ex-columnist myself who enjoyed stirring the pot, I would observe the more reader complaints the better. The last thing a good commentator wants is indifference from his audience. You don't mention how you lost your job -- were you fired or did you quit? -- but I would say that any publication worth its salt would be happy to employ you. Welcome to TCT, where I have raised a few hackles myself for taking an unpopular stance with this audience now and then. For some reason, I am tolerated but there may come a time when I find myself persona non grata. Sooner or later, wherever you go, you wear out your welcome. Here's wishing you every success, David. - Grump Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:53:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12697 I am so happy to find you here on the Catholic Thing, David Warren. I've been a faithful reader of your columns since Conrad Black established the National Post (along with those of Mark Steyn). I was disappointed when I learned you would no longer appear in a Canadian paper, and have been Googling you daily to see where you might turn up. And I'm grateful to God that I no longer have to endure the smirking mugs of Dan Gardner and Susan Riley to get to your musings! - Lauri Friesen Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:50:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12696 And I was depending on Ottawa to be a conscience for Washington. Ouch. Thanks for your excellent essay. - Mack Hall Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:56:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12695 Welcome to TCT, Mr. Warren. My wife and I are Canadaphiles, having vacationed there (both coasts) every year (including this one!) for the last fifteen years. Please don't be harsh on the seculars with whom you have had to deal. Pres. Obama has been invited and confirmed to speak at the AL SMITH Dinner for NY CATHOLIC CHARITIES in October this year. Who invited him? Why CARDINAL DOLAN. of course. Think of it, with all the ink that has been spilled re: Notre Dame in 2009, and the HHS Mandate effective YESTERDAY, the president of the USCCB has invited a pto-abortion, pro same-sex marriage, pro aberrosexual president to be the featured guest. - Manfred Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:00:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/memoirs-of-a-pundit.html#comment-12694 Miss Anscombe, probably the most acute Catholic philosopher of the last century, identified the difficulty back in 1958 "In present-day philosophy an explanation is required how an unjust man is a bad man, or an unjust action a bad one; to give such an explanation belongs to ethics; but it cannot even be begun until we are equipped with a sound philosophy of psychology. For the proof that an unjust man is a bad man would require a positive account of justice as a “virtue.” This part of the subject-matter of ethics, is however, completely closed to us until we have an account of what type of characteristic a virtue is – a problem, not of ethics, but of conceptual analysis – and how it relates to the actions in which it is instanced: a matter which I think Aristotle did not succeed in really making clear. For this we certainly need an account at least of what a human action is at all, and how its description as “doing such-and-such” is affected by its motive and by the intention or intentions in it; and for this an account of such concepts is required." - Michael Paterson-Seymour Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:52:13 +0100