As liberated gay men in the 1970s once baffled their pre-Stonewall forebears, the new gender outlaws, to borrow a phrase from the transgender writer Kate Bornstein, may soon be running ideological circles around their elders.
He shares other influences with Mrs. Bachmann and ties to some of the same figures and advocacy groups, including the Tea Party and Mr. Dean's own lawyer, Larry Klayman, a well-known conservative/Libertarian activist (he says that he and Mrs. Bachmann have "traveled in the same ideological circles for years").
However, citing Rothbard's absence of academic publications, Skousen concedes that Rothbard was effectively "outside the discipline" of mainstream economics and that his work "fell on deaf ears" outside his ideological circles.
When it comes to Clinton, left and right have managed to close the ideological circle.
"Belmokhtar has been active in political, ideological and criminal circles in the Sahara for the past two decades," Jon Marks, an academic at the London-based think-tank Chatham House, told the BBC.
Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies — from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program — that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.
Personalities, for example, were central to both the French and Russian Revolutions, since those who presided over terror navigated in narrow circles where ideological debate often masked more personal antipathies and ambitions.
Psychological theory supports the idea that conservatives, if threatened, will circle the ideological wagons, embracing rather than moving away from conservative values.
There is noting at all wrong with that... until the psychological/emotional need for tribal cohesion and unity makes people so closed-minded and fiercely defensive of their views that, like settlers threatened by the Indians, they circle their ideological wagons and treat anyone who disagrees with them as The Enemy.
Mathematics apart, his map had in many circles won the ideological argument.
The Party sounded "increasingly out of touch" and was "driving around in circles on an ideological cul-de-sac".
