In this episode, Richard Whatmore speaks with Aurelian Craiutu about his
new book Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (CUP, 2023).
The book challenges the conventional image of moderation as a “simple
virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center
between the extremes.” Instead, he shows moderation to be a complex virtue
with a rich tradition and unexplored radical aspects. With its epistolary
form, the book presents an imaginary dialogue between two young radicals
and a passionate moderate, thereby outlining the distinctive political
vision undergirding moderation in modern America.
