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Hello, my name is Tyler Sick. I am an assistant professor of politics at the University of Pineville and the author of an article recently published in persuasion called The Methods of Moynihan.

My article takes a deep dive into the political thought of former United States senator

and social critic Daniel Patrick Moynihan. For most of his career, Senator Moynihan was famous for his

forceful and seemingly contradictory political positions. He was at once critical of detente and President Reagan's

Beliaco's foreign policy, an advocate of welfare reform

who despise New Gringrich's contract with America,

a firm believer in equality of outcome who thought the great society to be a tremendous

failure.

However, in seeing simply the contradictions of Moynihan, one misses the defining characteristics of his entire career.

He perfectly blended the very best of conservatism and liberalism.

By this, I do not mean that some days he acted like a Republican and other days he acted like a

Democrat. Moynihan's conservative liberalism went much deeper than this, fusing

together a conservative disposition and a liberal political vision. That is to say that he possessed both a serious

appreciation of culture, prudence, and tradition, but an equal measure hope that the government can be used to alleviate the very worst of humanity's sufferings.

This unique combination of philosophic beliefs allowed Moynihan to see the problems of the 20th century differently, and he in

turn better understood how to solve them.

And I hope you take a look at my article so you can see his brilliance for yourself. Jeffrey Tyler's six piece called The Methods of Moynihan was published by Persuasion.

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