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...Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much of the moral language used by Dole...
...philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left has been Yale law professor and Camp David guest Stephen L. Carter, best known for advocating, in The Culture of Disbelief, a more vigorous role for religion in our political life...
...Buchanan cohort is large and desirable but maybe also impossible to accommodate. The issues--and the answers--that excite them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to declare Buchanan beyond the pale. William Bennett, the moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned with. "It's not a real bright idea...
...culture wars of the 1996 campaign, Keyes is the most ferocious--and eloquent--soldier of the right. While his supporters paint him as a black Ronald Reagan, he is in fact the anti-Jesse Jackson, a silver-tongued moralist who preaches a single-minded, theologically tinted conservative message. Though Keyes registers less than 2% support in national polls of Republican voters (he came in fifth in last week's Iowa straw poll) and has a ramshackle organization, he has emerged as one of the campaign's most compelling--and curious--figures. He is , first of all, a political oxymoron...
...Moralist though he is, perfect Havel is not. In the first elections held in free Czechoslovakia, Havel intimidated opposing Communist candidates from running for president by threatening to expose their secret police files. In attempting to exploit the old regime, Havel violated the spirit of the new democratic nation...