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| | Left, Right, Vital Center |
 | | More than 50 years ago, Arthur Schlessinger wrote The Vital Center, where he claimed the universal acceptance of the New Deal and Cold War liberalism was under attack by forces on the far Right led by Robert Taft and on the far Left led by Henry Wallace. |
 | | In his economics textbooks, Paul Samuelson complained that the "new radical right allied with the Chicago school" which is really "a form of anarchism" and the radical left "join together in their attack on conventional economics." These two groups are the same, according to Samuelson, because they both don’t like bureaucrats. |
 | | Foer and the rest of the vital center of course push their attack on the extremists well past culture, and focus on foreign policy. |
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