Meditations of a Militant Moderate

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.