overton

The job of the ultimatist is to expand the Overton Window, challenge assumptions, highlight hypocrisy, ask uncomfortable questions.

If noting (for instance) that different people are different is outside of the Overton Window, the sandbox is tiny indeed.

Shanley pushing the Overton window makes space for a lot of voices who aren't already being heard.

Can you safely express ideas outside the Overton Window, for curiosity's sake, on your own time?

But now, for any intellectual worthy of the name, the Overton Window is narrow and constraining.

So thanks Apple for shifting the overton window, thanks Microsoft for delivering it to PCs.

Well, ok, the professors put forth as potential solutions inside the increasingly narrow Overton Window...

The laws themselves being an exercise in Overton window type thinking, not with any view that they would stand for long.

The dark side of the press trivialiasing an issue, opening the Overton window...

In between convincing the anti-vaccine folks that they're wrong (not gonna happen) and mere trolling is a third option: moving the Overton Window.

I would have thought a think tank had better ways of shifting the overton window, this seems a bit desperate.

Most solutions to our problems are outside the Overton window - if they weren't we would have solved the problems already.

Did you mean, "it constrains itself to the Overton window?" Or, "it attempts to move the Overton window (up/down)?" Because saying it "overton windows" the discussion is meaningless.

He shifts the Overton Window towards what most of us consider the "reasonable" position.

It overton windows the whole discussion, but most people who don't wear seatbelts are not "Free Men on the land" quoting Magna Carta.

I guess "I will accept inconvenience to maintain my privacy" is now outside the Overton Window?