For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly and for similar reasons connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in
The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can regard environmental ethics as marking out the farthest limits of American liberalism.”
1 For Nash, the association is a direct one: environmentalism and liberalism are related because the one is an expression of the other. Liberalism, in Nash’s view, centers on granting rights based on intrinsic worth to the previously marginalized and defenseless. As liberal thinkers have argued for the moral consideration of more and more subjects a process that Nash calls the “ethical extension of liberali
Remembering Alaska’s visit from the Pope, 40 years later Author: Tam Agosti-Gisler Published February 25
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Print article On Feb. 26, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Anchorage. Here is an excerpt about that event from my mother’s 1981 Christmas letter: “
About the middle of January, I received a call from Archbishop Hurley asking me to be the program director for the anticipated visit of Pope John Paul II to Anchorage. I had worked in the program department at NBC Hollywood in the 1940s, but believe me, it did not prepare me for this job. Within six weeks, our committee put together an outdoor Mass (in February, yet), a tremendously complex security system, transportation from outlying areas to the inner city, hospitality, selection of ecumenical leaders and handicapped persons who would meet the Pope, invitations to dignitaries all over the United States (including three cardinals, dozens of bishops and hundred
we ll watch those carefully over the next couple of hours. you sour it on the saw it on the live shot, clouds increasing and some rain bands getting ready to move through. i just got a statement from the national weather service that we can expect winds gusting to 50 miles an hour with these bameds of rain as they approach the western edge there of the beltway and particularly that band that s west of clarksburg in urbana. you can see all that very heavy rain. again, we ve got showers, possibility of some thunderstorms and winds gusting to 50 miles per hour as these storms race off to the east at about 50 miles per hour. so bottom line, expect some very heavy rain in your early morning forecast and then things should start to dry out later this afternoon. temperatures, these are amazing, reagan national 54 degrees. look at fredricksburg, 64 at this hour. that s the fuel for these storms this morning, 42 in hagerstown, cooler and dryer air will be working in later today. so