Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics

By Peter H. Schuck

Book Overview

Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and remarkably readable collection of short essays on a wide variety of hot-button public issues-race, affirmative action, surrogate motherhood, diversity, immigration, compensation of 9/11 victims, exclusion of gays from the Boy Scouts and the military, the 2004 election, the rule of law in developing countries, the invasion of Iraq, and many more-Yale Law School professor Peter Schuck reveals the distinctive sensibility and policy orientation of a militant moderate: pragmatic, reformist, non-ideological, empirically-minded, and skeptical of many liberal and conservative pieties.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074253961X
• ISBN13: 9780742539617
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"