orthodoxy
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The spread of this new orthodoxy shouldn’t be surprising, for as the author notes, “insatiability is a defining feature of moral crusades. As crusaders achieve victories, they expand the scope of their crusade.”
While this dynamic accurately describes the Third Reich, it has hardened into an orthodoxy that governs how information is interpreted and how moral categories are assigned.
For Bowman, the reforms are the culmination of years spent fighting against the orthodoxy of the Fed and the more forceful regulatory agenda of her predecessor, Fed governor Michael Barr.
The University of Washington appears to have enshrined an orthodoxy about the illegitimacy of its own existence.
David Hume, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Smith and their contemporaries weren’t riding a wave of orthodoxy but quietly turning a Calvinist culture into a laboratory for skepticism, commerce and civil society.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
