Why Extreme Moderation Is the Vital Alternative to Political Polarization
Theorist Tzvetan Todorov's Passionate Pluralism Is More Relevant Now Than Ever
Last month, the Bulgarian-French intellectual Tzvetan Todorov died. A scholar on the history of thought, his writings influenced fields as disparate as anthropology, literary criticism, and history. His death was, of course, tragic for family and friends: Stricken by Parkinson’s, he was gone more suddenly than any of us had anticipated. But it was also tragic for readers and citizens who had never met him. The world right now is in great need of the thing Todorov was most passionate about: political moderation.
Todorov’s work is diverse and difficult to pigeonhole. …
