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=== Books on specific topics === [[File:Parag Khanna (6856923986).jpg|thumb|[[Parag Khanna]] speaks on his book ''How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance''<ref name=Khanna/>]] Many books offer radical centrist perspectives and policy proposals on topics including foreign policy, environmentalism, food and agriculture, underachievement among minorities, women and men, bureaucracy and overregulation, economics, international relations, political dialogue, political organization and what one person can do. * In ''Ethical Realism'' (2006), British liberal [[Anatol Lieven]] and U.S. conservative [[John Hulsman]] advocate a foreign policy based on modesty, principle and seeing ourselves as others see us.<ref>Lieven, Anatol; Hulsman, John (2006). ''Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World''. Pantheon Books / Random House, Introduction. {{ISBN|978-0-375-42445-8}}.</ref> * In ''Break Through'' (2007), environmental strategists [[Ted Nordhaus]] and [[Michael Shellenberger]] of the [[Breakthrough Institute]] call on activists to become more comfortable with pragmatism, high-technology and aspirations for human greatness.<ref>Nordhaus, Ted; Shellenberger, Michael (2007). ''Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility''. Houghton Mifflin, Introduction. {{ISBN|978-0-618-65825-1}}.</ref> * In ''Food from the Radical Center'' (2018), ecologist [[Gary Paul Nabhan]] proposes agricultural policies intended to unite left and right as well as improve the food supply.<ref>Nabhan, Gary Paul (2018). ''Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities''. Washington, DC: [[Island Press]]. {{ISBN|978-1-61091-919-7}}.</ref> * In ''Winning the Race'' (2005), linguist [[John McWhorter]] says that many African Americans are negatively affected by a cultural phenomenon he calls "therapeutic alienation".<ref>McWhorter, John (2005). ''Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America''. Gotham Books / Penguin Group, Chap. 5. {{ISBN|978-1-59240-188-8}}.</ref> * In ''Unfinished Business'' (2016), [[Anne-Marie Slaughter]] of [[New America (organization)|New America]] rethinks feminist assumptions and presents new visions of how women and men can flourish.<ref>[[Anne-Marie Slaughter|Slaughter, Anne-Marie]] (2016). ''Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family''. Random House. {{ISBN|978-0-8129-8497-2}}.</ref> * In ''Try Common Sense'' (2019), attorney [[Philip K. Howard]] urges the national government to set broad goals and standards, and leave interpretation to those closest to the ground.<ref>Howard, Philip K. (2019). ''Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left''. W. W. Norton & Company, Introduction. {{ISBN|978-1-324-00176-8}}.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Howard summarized ''Try Common Sense'' in an article entitled "A Radical Centrist Platform for 2020."<ref name=Howard>Howard, Philip K. (13 April 2019). "[https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/437963-a-radical-centrist-platform-for-2020/ A Radical Centrist Platform for 2020]". ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''. Retrieved 17 June 2019.</ref>|group="nb"}} * In ''The Origin of Wealth'' (2006), Eric Beinhocker of the [[Institute for New Economic Thinking]] portrays the economy as a dynamic but imperfectly self-regulating evolutionary system and suggests policies that could support benign socio-economic evolution.<ref>Beinhocker, Eric D. (2006). ''The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics''. Harvard Business School Press, pp. 11β13 and Chap. 18 ("Politics and Policy: The End of Left versus Right"). {{ISBN|978-1-57851-777-0}}.</ref> * In ''How to Run the World'' (2011), scholar [[Parag Khanna]] argues that the emerging [[International relations|world order]] should not be run from the top down, but by a galaxy of [[Voluntary sector|nonprofit]], nation-state, corporate and individual actors cooperating for their mutual benefit.<ref name=Khanna>Khanna, Parag (2011). ''How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance''. Random House. {{ISBN|978-0-6796-0428-0}}.</ref> * In ''The Righteous Mind'' (2012), social psychologist [[Jonathan Haidt]] says we can conduct useful political dialogue only after acknowledging the strengths in our opponents' ways of thinking.<ref>Haidt, Jonathan (2012). ''The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion''. Pantheon Books, Chap. 12 ("Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?"). {{ISBN|978-0-307-37790-6}}.</ref> * In ''Voice of the People'' (2008), conservative activist [[Lawrence Chickering]] and liberal attorney James Turner attempt to lay the groundwork for a grassroots "[[transpartisan]]" movement across the U.S.<ref>Chickering, A. Lawrence; Turner, James S. (2008). ''Voice of the People: The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life''. DaVinci Press, Part V. {{ISBN|978-0-615-21526-6}}.</ref> * In his memoir ''Radical Middle: Confessions of an Accidental Revolutionary'' (2010), South African journalist [[Great South Africans (TV series)|Denis Beckett]] tries to show that one person can make a difference in a situation many might regard as hopeless.<ref>Beckett, Denis (2010). ''Radical Middle: Confessions of an Accidental Revolutionary''. Tafelberg. {{ISBN|978-0-624-04912-8}}.</ref>
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