Food from the
Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities
To find the "
radical center," from which a consensus on these issues can emerge, it's important to identify people who are willing to hear all sides of an issue and identify opportunities and challenges, Atwood said.
But are the viewpoints of Friedman's
radical center and, by extension, Americans Elect without a home in American politics?
This behavior is supported for the increase observed in the position average of the g-factor (Table I), which is indicative of the formation of carbonyl groups, since the g factor of carbon radicals increases when oxygen is attached to the
radical center, similar to -C[H.sup.2]-C(=O)-CH x - because of the higher polarity around the carbon radicals (Ikada et al., 2005).
That is why we need political innovation that takes America's disempowered
radical center and enables it to act in proportion to its true size, unconstrained by the two parties, interest groups and orthodoxies that have tied our politics in knots."
Howard Zinn first appeared in these pages in 1970, discussing the need for liberals to re-establish a new and vital
radical center (see excerpts on page 15) and also contributed several times in the early '90s and once more in a book foreword in the last issue.
WHILE THE
RADICAL CENTER POLITICAL MOVEMENT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 30 YEARS, I SUGGEST LEADERS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA PROGRAMS ADOPT A SIMILAR VIEW ON HOT-BUTTON TOPICS.
A diverse group of contributors--poets, ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, and academics--relates stories about how urban and rural people in the "
radical center" are working together to create and sustain the health of the land.
In 1976 the sociologist Donald Warren wrote The
Radical Center, a study of an emerging political species he called Middle American Radicals.
The
radical Center for Science in the Public Interest lobbied the World Health Organization to endorse so-called Twinkie taxes and further restrictions on food choices.
From the endnotes in each chapter, it's clear that Satin has dog-eared his copy of Ted Halstead and Michael Lind's The
Radical Center, which supplied a more sophisticated take on the premise that a majority of Americans might embrace a policy agenda outside the normal frameworks of the two parties.
In The
Radical Center: The Future of American Politics, authors Ted Halstead and Michael Lind suggest the confluence of five factors--the polarization of wealth, economic depression, war, major demographic shifts and accelerating technological reinvention--has produced a redefinition of our social compact.