Tag: centrist
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The MA Election: A Rebellion Against the Leviathan?
It's now been a week since the senatorial election in Massachusetts. I've heard the pundits and their myriad reasons for Scott Brown winning. What does this election mean for Obama and the Dems as we enter the State of the Union address this evening? My favorite reflection on the election's significance was written as the…
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Centrist, Middle, Moderate, or Third Way: Conflated Concerns
Last week I raised objections to “centrist” metaphors on four grounds: It envisions two polar constellations of views anchoring a continuum in which there is a center. Some individual topics may fit this metaphor but as more topics are added, the more meaningless such an analogy becomes. It frequently conjures up images of impotent compromise.…
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Centrist, Middle, Moderate, or Third Way?
What to does it mean to be centrist, middle, moderate, or third-way? Scot McKnight recently did a great series on Adam Hamilton' book Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics. (I have the book and look forward to reading it.) Scot refers to perspectives like Hamilton's as…