Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

In 1964, the Ripon Society, a progressive Republican think tank, put out a widely circulated “open letter to the new generation of Republicans.” In the letter, they described what they saw as the critical distinction between the “moderate” and the “extremist”: The moderate recognizes that there are a variety of means available to him, but that ther

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Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee

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