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Pragmatism treats ideas, concepts, and institutions as tools for solving concrete human problems rather than as representations of eternal truths. Pragmatist political thought emphasizes experimentation, learning from experience, and the reconstruction of institutions in response to changing circumstances. 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Du Bois was a civil rights pioneer and co-founder of the NAACP whose analysis of race, class, and democracy made him the most important African American political thinker of the 20th century",1868,1963,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":152},{"id":153,"era":128,"name":154,"slug":155,"one_line":156,"birth_year":157,"death_year":158,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":124},130,"John Maynard Keynes","john-maynard-keynes","John Maynard Keynes was the liberal economist whose General Theory (1936) revolutionized economics and whose mixed-economy philosophy underpinned mid-20th-century Western liberal democracy",1883,1946,{"is_primary":115,"thinkers":160},{"id":161,"era":162,"name":163,"slug":164,"one_line":165,"birth_year":166,"death_year":167,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":108},284,"19th Century","Charles Sanders Peirce","charles-peirce","The mathematician and logician who founded American pragmatism — arguing that the meaning of any concept lay in its practical consequences, and that inquiry was an inherently social and self-correcting process",1839,1914,{"is_primary":110,"thinkers":169},{"id":170,"era":118,"name":171,"slug":172,"one_line":173,"birth_year":150,"death_year":112,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":127},215,"Jonathan Haidt","jonathan-haidt","Jonathan Haidt is a moral psychologist and critic of academia's liberal monoculture whose moral foundations research explains why the left consistently underestimates what conservatives actually care about",{"is_primary":110,"thinkers":175},{"id":176,"era":112,"name":177,"slug":178,"one_line":179,"birth_year":112,"death_year":112,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":124},760,"Stephen Breyer","stephen-breyer","Stephen Breyer is a liberal pragmatist who, as a Supreme Court justice, championed 'active liberty' — reading the Constitution as a charter for democratic self-government rather than rigid formalism",{"is_primary":110,"thinkers":181},{"id":182,"era":112,"name":183,"slug":184,"one_line":185,"birth_year":112,"death_year":112,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":124},703,"Arthur Schlesinger Jr.","arthur-schlesinger-jr","Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was the historian and partisan of Cold War liberalism who defined the mid-century 'vital center' — a fighting, pragmatic middle ground against extremes of left and right",{"is_primary":110,"thinkers":187},{"id":188,"era":128,"name":189,"slug":190,"one_line":191,"birth_year":192,"death_year":193,"portrait_url":112,"sort_priority":108},232,"Michael Harrington","michael-harrington","Michael Harrington was a democratic socialist writer who made poverty visible to postwar America with The Other America — and spent the rest of his life arguing that the response had been far too timid",1928,1989,[195,197],{"archetype_slug":8,"connection_sentence":196},"Judge an institution by what it actually does for people — pragmatism's test, and yours. It is why you trust competent, evidence-driven administration over ideological purity as the real engine of reform.",{"archetype_slug":47,"connection_sentence":198},"For you, political questions get settled by evidence and consequences rather than by an ideological system — pragmatism's epistemology, and the instinct that complexity calls for judgment over doctrine.",[200,201,203,204,206,207],{"archetype_slug":83,"shared_thinker_count":108},{"archetype_slug":56,"shared_thinker_count":202},4,{"archetype_slug":17,"shared_thinker_count":202},{"archetype_slug":95,"shared_thinker_count":205},3,{"archetype_slug":44,"shared_thinker_count":205},{"archetype_slug":11,"shared_thinker_count":205}]