ABSTRACT
The spectrum of contemporary political and intellectual life in America is composed of three ideologies: liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism. For most of this century liberalism characterized the real center of both politics and the life of the mind. But while the liberal center still holds, by and large, in American politics, the center of gravity in the intellectual and academic world has shifted, since the late 1960s, toward the radical pole. The reaction to this normalization of radicalism, which has been most prominent in the humanities and the social sciences, has played no small part in forming the moral career of Irving Louis Horowitz, one of our leading social scientists.
