The war on compassion “The War on Compassion,” was first presented as The Paul O’Neill Lecture at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, May 2005. I thank the O’Neill Lecture Committee and the O’Neill family for inviting me to present new work under the auspices of the lectureship. “The War on Compassion” was first published In The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader, ed. Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams (New York City: Columbia University Press, 2007), 21–36. http://cup.columbia.edu/ .