The children’s author Theodore Seuss Geisel lived his entire life not just as a staunch progressive, but even as the rather grating variety. To Geisel, the Cold War clash with totalitarian communism was a dispute as flimsy as a debate over how to butter bread. Horton Hears A Who! may declare that ‘a person’s a person, no matter how small,’ but Seuss threatened to sue a pro-life group that took that statement to its logical conclusion.