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ONLINE NEWSLETTER: HOME Site Map Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: The Very Best of Radical Middle Access All Mark Satin Articles, 2005- 2009 Access All Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 Access John Avlon Articles, 2004-2006 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: Book's Home Page Book's Preface Author's Publicity Schedule Press Clips and Blog Snips RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: E-mail the Editor! Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 - 2009 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001 WHO WE ARE: About the Editor (In-House Version) About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson) About Our Wonderful Pledgers About Our Board of Advisors About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law RADICAL MIDDLE CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS: 109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08) 108th Congress (2003 & 2004) 107th Congress (2001 & 2002) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: 1980 - 2009, Complete SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS: 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s SOME PRIOR BOOKS BY MARK SATIN: New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92) New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976 Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, 1968 | MONTHLY ARTICLES BY MARK SATIN Dear Viewer, -- I will be spending the next part of my life writing two texts, a memoir (see my Wikipedia biography HERE) and a political tract (see research notes HERE). So after 10+ years and 120 articles, Radical Middle Newsletter has come to an end. But this website shall remain -- and shall continue to be updated. Because political change is so slow in this country, most of Radical Middles articles are as timely now as ever! Here's how I've rearranged them for you:
Our articles are unusually rich in ideas and
information. I hope youll not
only enjoy them, but make good use of them. All best, -- Mark Satin OUR FIVE MOST VIEWED ARTICLES 1A. [not an article, but currently our most viewed Web page: Fifty Contemporary Political Ideologies. May I assume from this that many of us are looking for tools to build our OWN perspectives with?] 1. Ten
Best American Political Novels 2. Modest
Women, Honorable Men 3. The One-State
Solution for Israel-Palestine Is the Most Visionary AND the Most Sensible 4. Universal,
Preventive, and Cost-Effective Health Care Is Within Our Grasp 5. Barack Obama:
First Radical Middle Presidential Candidate? We've had NEARLY 3.5 MILLION ARTICLE VIEWS ("pageviews") through 2010. See stats at the bottom of this page. BEST OF RADICAL MIDDLE For a more sumptuously presented version of this virtual anthology, with summaries of each article, see HERE. I. Introduction Post-Partisan! The First Uniquely American Political Ideology Is Being Born Are the Best Conservative Thinkers Becoming Radical Middle? Wheres the Juice? A Review of Halstead and Linds The Radical Center II. Economy Could Common Ground on Capitalism (and Globalization) Be at Hand? Selling U.S. Products Abroad: Malign, Moral, or a Chance for Mutual Learning? Art Kleiners Good Corporate Guys vs. David Yamadas Good Corporate Laws To Balance the Federal Budget, Build a Better Society! III. Polity Repairing American Democracy: Changing the Rules Is Not Enough Mediator-Leaders: The Leadership We Need Now? OK, Congressman Rangel, Lets Bring Back the Draft But a Better One Than Yours! Healing First! Time for the U.S. Justice System to Get Less Mechanistic and More Therapeutic IV. Society What the Poor Need Now Confronting the Sociopolitical Causes of Psychological Depression: Too Taboo? Liberal vs. Conservative vs. Holistic Immigration Reform Rx for Black America: Stop Therapeutic Alienation Now! V. Culture Re-Inventing American History: When Narratives Collide These Self-Help Books Celebrate Honesty, Connection, and Complexity! Safety and Love First: The Politics of Childrens Literature Zadie Smiths On Beauty: First Great Radical Middle Political Novel VI. Global Coming to Grips with Our Badness Is Democracy What the World Needs Now? Ethical Realism: The Foreign Policy We Need Now Fareed Zakarias Global Humanism vs. Alanna Hartzoks Earth-Rights Idealism VII. Strategy Alienation Forever?: A Critique of David Kortens The Great Turning Wheres the Depth?: A Critique of Thomas Friedmans The World Is Flat Wheres the Mutual Learning?: A Critique of George Lakoffs Dont Think of an Elephant Wheres the Backbone?: A Critique of Paul Hawkens Blessed Unrest VIII. Groups Participants Agonize Over (and Draw Lessons From) the Death and Life of the NEW WORLD ALLIANCE Resentment and Transcendence at the NAACP Convention Don Becks SPIRAL DYNAMICS INTEGRAL Confab: Political Evolution Now! Coherent Radical Centrist Agenda Emerges at NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Conference IX. Movement? At Last, a Movement that Would Have Us Listen To and Learn From Each Other First Transpartisan Political Organization Prepares for Liftoff There Is a Radical Middle in Congress Mushy Middle? No Way! A 12-Point Radical Middle Agenda X. Conclusion The Katrina Dialogues: A Dream Deferred "Thank you for your very real ministry" -- unsolicited note to Mark Satin from M. Scott Peck (1936-2005), author of The Road Less Traveled "Sometimes I get a dismal feeling that all the magazines have one Group Mind or One Editor. Youre an exception, and Im a grateful reader" unsolicited note to Mark Satin from Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities ABOUT RADICAL MIDDLE NEWSLETTER AND BOOK Radical Middle, edited and largely written by Mark Satin, was an international political newsletter that covered policy issues, conferences, and books in the fields of politics, law, business, and global governance. From January 1999 through December 2004, Radical Middle was an old fashioned printed newsletter. From January 2005 through June 2009, it was online only. Rest assured that this Web site is less primitive than it looks -- it was designed to resemble the printed newsletter! We published original articles each month. Our focus was on holistic, sustainable efforts that transcended politics-as-usual AND bitter alienation; our goal, one economically, culturally, racially, and politically integrated world. Radical Middle's articles from the first five years were transmuted into an award-winning book published in 2004 by Westview Press and Basic Books (see cover image close to this paragraph). You can get a good sense of the book by clicking on the special BOOK PAGE we created for you. And you can purchase copies at discounts from Amazon.com (click HERE) or BarnesandNoble.com (click HERE). Alternately, please shop at your local bookstore -- and urge it to order more copies! "Mark Satin's book [and] insightful web magazine . . . isn't the place to go [if you want] cheerleading for left activism. But it is a place for people . . . looking for fresh solutions" -- Art Levine, "Beyond Centrism," The Huffington Post, July 16, 2006
Mark Satin speaking with feeling at the Fall for the Book Literary Festival, September 21, 2004. Photo kindly donated to this Web site and the public domain by Penny H. Gilchrist, manager / hero of the Festival. ARTICLES BY JOHN AVLON To view our archive of articles by John Avlon, click HERE. "It is admittedly far easier to divide than to unite. But while dividers may win battles, uniters win wars" -- John Avlon, Independent Nation (2004) ARTICLES
FROM NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION To view the latest articles by New America fellows & senior fellows, click HERE. "The Radical Center [is] interested not in tinkering at the margin . . . but rather in promoting, when necessary, a wholesale revamping" -- Ted Halstead & Michael Lind, The Radical Center (2001) AWARDS "Over the years, Satin has unabashedly challenged tired thinking on any part of the political spectrum" -- Helen Cordes in the Utne Reader ARRANGEMENT WITH AMAZON.COM As an "Associate" of Amazon.com, we earn a substantial referral fee (at no cost to you) whenever you "click" on a book we've highlighted in blue and purchase it from Amazon.com. (Our "Best Books" sections include many such books. So do most of our articles.) We earn a smaller but not insignificant fee (at no cost to you) on any items you buy after entering Amazon.com through the logo below. So if you've been enjoying our writings, please help support our efforts by buying from Amazon.com through this website. We're one of the few political newsletters that's 100% independent of advertisers, Big Foundations, corporate largesse, and wealthy "publishers" . . . and we'd like to keep it that way.
"The Radical Center is not neutral, not middle-of-the-road, but a view of the whole road" -- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980) YES, LOGO?
This logo was created for us by the talented young founder of "Openartist," Paul Bloch. Although we appreciate it no end (and bloggers are free to copy and use it, as was done HERE), I think a third creature representing imaginative new ideas -- owl? wolf? rhinoceros? -- needs to be in there somewhere. "While most issues in contention are presented as having just two sides . . . there usually exists a third [from which] the truth of each competing point of view can be appreciated" -- William Ury, The Third Side (rev. 2000) STAT SHEET . . . or, how a Web site gets built via word of mouth (we do no advertising): Year 2000 25,521 article views (aka "pageviews") Total through 2010 3,474,622 article views [Stats since 2006 via Urchin Software Corp.] "I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms" -- Walt Whitman, "By Blue Ontario's Shore" (1856) |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: WHY "Radical Middle"? 50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s 10 Best Radical Middle MAGAZINES 25 Arguably Radical Middle POLITICIANS GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: Over 250 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations 50 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: 10 Best U.S. Political NOVELS 50 Current Activist MEMOIRS 50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES Organizations REFLECTING 50 Political Ideologies 50 Current Political MANIFESTOS Fiction and Memoirs ABOUT Ideologies 25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Ashoka Breakthough Institute Center for Court Innovation Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Consensus Building Institute Environmental Defense Fund Ethical Markets Future 500 [corporations & NGOs] Giraffe Heroes Project Global Business Network Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation NDN/New Politics Institute New America Foundation No Labels Politics of Trust Network Progressive Policy Institute Republican Main Street Partnership RESULTS Search for Common Ground Third Way Transpartisan Alliance World Future Society SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s New World Alliance, 1970s Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom) |