Occasionally, a random blogger will link to a post at this site, trumpeting it as evidence that the contributors here have either lived up to or contradicted the moniker under which we write.
Sometimes, both perspectives — praise and critique — are legitimate.
That said, I doubt any of us, here or elsewhere, will ever achieve 100-percent compliance with 100-percent of the competing definitions of “moderate.” How boring we would be if we did. Instead, I hope our readers and competitors alike judge us consistently, not on our individual persons or posts or positions, but on the aggregate balance of our output. Because on that measure, I’m convinced, we will stay reasonably true to our name. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t contribute here, nor would I muster the audacity to pen essays like this one.
Of course, it never hurts, every now and then, to be challenged or to challenge ourselves on this question. Such tests can only sharpen our search for progressively truer forms of civil and constructive debate.