“Reliance on frames and paradigms and whatnot is not some kind of failure to be sufficiently open-minded, it’s a precondition of any sort of attempt to understand the world.”
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‘Mushball middle’?
“Fundamentalism is the real enemy of progress, and that includes both fundamentalist take-no-prisoners conservatives as well as fundamentalist America-is-a-sink-of-corruption lefties.”
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Liberalism defined.
Liberalism as an ideology, a philosophy, and an attitude toward political reality.
Progressive politics — like the country generally — needs more people who know how to lead rather than throw a tantrum.
The most important movement to join is the one that will insure the election of a better administration in 2004.
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Student march.
Clearly someone from the UUA was standing out front with an encouraging sign.
Once the war begins, the movement that has tried to stop it is going to find itself deeply divided.
“Jesus became Bush’s life coach—a sort of divine Tony Robbins.”
“To paraphrase Camus, I belong to the antiwar movement despite the antiwar movement.”
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Liberal blogs.
Here’s a handy guide.