manicheanism

Rawls repeats the common charge that Hellenism had corrupted Christianity, tempting Christians to adopt various heresies, including gnosticism, docetism, manicheanism, and montanism.

Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

But in the real world beyond the cartoon manicheanism of the left, the people who struggle against a villainous regime may themselves be villainous.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

But in the real world beyond the cartoon manicheanism of the left, the people who struggle against a villainous regime may themselves be villainous.

Heroes and villains 2007

Don't worry, you'll grow up some day, stop reading "The Nation" as news and understand that the world is more complex than you can see through the blinders of your primitive manicheanism.

"The GOP has morphed from a party that reveres limited government to a party that is girlishly infatuated with executive authority." Ann Althouse 2007

When the later cartoons, Beast Wars and Beast Machines, began their run, the situation was similar-initially unable to get away from manicheanism in a children's cartoon, they settled for other tactics of maturing the brand.

The House Next Door 2009

etc. by a poet from another aesthetic tradition & find myself unable to work up any sort of enthusiasm, I get all worried that I'm falling into the manicheanism that Don Share excoriates so nicely in his "little everyday fascisms" post*, referring transparently yet coyly to Ron Silliman's response to the reams of reviewery devoted to the Lowell / Bishop letters.

Culture Industry 2008