These are large interlocutors, but "Netherland" has an ideological intricacy, a deep human wisdom, and prose grand enough to dare the comparison.
Yes, if he overrules aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom and suffering from ideological timidity.
For years there has been no mainstream ideological alternative – least of all from Labour – to the wisdom of the market and expansion of consumer capitalism into every public service and every area of life.
By approaching the Bible as a grab-bag of ideological goodies, French has made a mockery of Christian wisdom.
(Fukuyama blithely ignores the seemingly ineradicable reality of "regulatory capture" with his philosopher-king-like CBO, as he, in his rational wisdom, seems not to notice the ubiquity of ideological fervor).
But only if he overrules those of his aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom, huddled in a defensive crouch and overcome by ideological timidity.
But each has other weaknesses, which the fight for the centre ground in politics is revealing.Common wisdom holds that politics in Britain is no longer the ideological free-for-all it was.
Most importantly, editors and managers in publishing houses, as well as government officials, must exercise considerable "political wisdom" in order to creatively break through political taboos without violating the official "ideological framework".
Suddenly a banking crisis became a government deficit crisis and in a spectacular ideological coup, the idea that this was because governments had spent too much on social programs became the received wisdom.
Suddenly a banking crisis became a government deficit crisis – and in a spectacular ideological coup, the idea that this was because governments had spent too much on social programmes became the received wisdom.
