Talk:Paul Blanshard

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I recently did some research on Brand Blanshard and found your new article on his brother Paul informative and interesting. Thanks for creating it. Two suggestions: (1) At the end of your blockquote explicitly identify the work associated with "p. 4"; (2) in para 4, instead of saying "the book version" identify the book by name. WikiPedant 07:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Paul Blanshard was also an eugenist
Paul Blanshard was also an eugenist.Even in 1950 decade, his books and speaches were supporting eugenics.Agre22 (talk) 23:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)agre22

Sorry, that is false. Although he was an acquaintance of Margaret Sanger - whose major mistake in life was affiliation with the Eugenics Society - Paul Blanshard did not make the same mistake. One looks in vain for his name upon the preserved membership rosters of the Eugenics Society. Paul Blanshard was not an elitist in any manner. This is clear from his basically socialist politics and his leadership of the American Humanist Association. Whoever wrote the above, your obligation is to read his autobiography, Personal and Controversial. - - Ed Chilton —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.188.176.133 (talk) 13:31, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

This article is garbage!
The grammar and syntax are atrocious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.147.241.181 (talk) 02:07, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Neutrality and Paul Blanshard
Unlike his fraternal twin brother, philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul Blanshard was and remains one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history. To coin a phrase: History is war. It is frequently a battleground, and necessarily so in a real-time, online, People's Encyclopedia. Prior versions of this biographical sketch had the pendulum swung into the zone of apoplectic vitriol, yet no calls for so-called Neutrality were forthcoming at the top of the article. The concept of neutrality has all but disappeared from journalism and expecting it here seems slightly Pollyanish. Sources, for example, are not neutral. Is the Catholic Encyclopedia neutral about Paul Blanshard? The best achievement of neutrality was displayed by Pope John XXIII, who invited him to attend Vatican II.

In a printed encyclopedia, the biographical sketches of Brand and Paul would appear contiguous to each other, and each man would be better understood by readers who examined both articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.60.165 (talk) 15:24, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Pope Invited Blanshard to Vatican II?
The entry states that Pope John XXIII invited Paul Blanshard to cover Vatican II. Not only is this unsourced, how plausible is it that the pope would invite someone, who at the time, was often described, and not just by Catholics, as an anti-Catholic bigot? Did Blanshard even make this claim himself? Bronxpolwatcher (talk) 21:18, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Heads up. Before you make one more comment on this topic, locate and read a copy of the 1966 work entitled "Paul Blanshard on Vatican II". What do you think the chances are that, in the Introduction to that book, Mr. Blanshard explains the reasons and terms under which he went to Rome. Having done that, your next obligation is to read the autobiography of Paul Blanshard called "Personal and Controversial," published in 1973. The combination will give you a mere beginning of learning who and what Paul Blanshard was. If you don't want to do that, don't comment, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.49.241 (talk) 20:49, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

The claim in the article was unsourced. I asked for a source. After nobody replied (i.e. supplied a source), I deleted it one month later. Is there any independent confirmation that the pope himself invited him to cover Vatican II? People make lots of claims in their work.Bronxpolwatcher (talk) 07:30, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Heads up. Did you check either of the sources to which I pointed you, or did arrogance stay your hand and mind? Since both works are within arms reach, I have just re-read the Preface of "Paul Blanshard on Vatican II", Beacon Press 1966, plus Chapter Two "John and the Beginning"- pp 17-35. And I have re-examined Blanshard's autobiography, "Personal and Controversial," Chapter 20: "Vatican II and the Catholic Revolution" - pp 251-265.

I could place lengthy excerpts from both texts here, but my habit is not to let people place me upon the defensive. Your suggestion that Paul Blanshard would LIE with regard to his highly welcome reception in Rome from 1963 - 1965 is at best silly and at worst calumny.

--Ed Chilton —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.49.241 (talk) 16:27, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you provide an independent source that verifies his claim that the pope invited him to observe Vatican II? I am unwilling to believe someone who was a bigot and accused of bigotry, not just by Catholics.

Again, I had asked for a source, and no one provided one, so I went forward and deleted it. You then showed up long after to complainBronxpolwatcher (talk) 01:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

[redacted] Signed --Ed Chilton —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.49.241 (talk) 21:03, 13 February 2011 (UTC)