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Fred Newman
and Independent Politics
Newman has been a pioneer in the development of independent politics in
the United States since the late 1970s. Bringing keen analytic and engineering
skills to the electoral arena, Newman has had a major hand in the creation
of a series of unorthodox coalitions, campaigns, and organizations, including
the national Reform Party, the Patriot Party, the Independence Party of
New York.
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DELIBERATELY UNSYSTEMATIC
THOUGHTS ON A NEW WAY OF RUNNING A COUNTRY
(Originally published as Chapter 4 in The End of Knowing)
The conclusion to Gergen's succinct characterization of the postmodem
era that we quoted in Chapter 2 (p. 23) is the distinctly political
metaphor, "The center fails to hold." The formulation
(from Yeats's "The Second Coming") is in this context
substantively apt, for postmodemism makes "compromise as
Truth" structurally meaningless (given that there is no
Truth). Furthermore, it is formally appropriate in the sense
that the issue of whether there can be a developmental way to
continue knowing and, if not, what lies ahead for our species
is, in our opinion, ultimately a political matter. Read more...
Talk Talk
COLIN POWELL, BRONX GUY
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Every Sunday CUIP's president Jacqueline Salit and strategist and philosopher Fred Newman watch the political talk shows and discuss them. Here are excerpts from their dialogue on Sunday, October 18, 2008 after watching "The Chris Matthews Show," "Meet the Press,""The McLaughlin Group" and "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Read
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