An Essay in the History of the Radical Sensibility in America

How do you use the word "radical?" Committed to the progressive? The cooperative? The communal? The equalitarian?  In so far as social, political, and economic power is sought and wielded in malice, just so far is benevolence radical. The history of social, political, and economic power has been mostly the history of malice. The history of benevolence has been mostly the history of radicalism. The sensibility that loves benevolence has been a radical sensibility. In  An Essay in the Hi