The author had me until her denial that radical Islamic terrorism is not the greatest threat facing the world today. So what is it? Climate change I suppose. We live in an era where the media and general public parrot the doctrine of political ideology at the extreme ends of the spectrum (both right and left) while questioning none of it. Dogmatic and sad... Impossible, I guess to believe that Islamophobia/xenophobia and Islamic jihadist terrorism (committed by a small minority of Muslims who have been radicalized) are both problems in need of being addressed... that would be blasphemy according to the liberal (or conservative) bibles. 

The political 'center' is at risk of becoming extinct. Throw out your checklists of what it means to be conservative or liberal. They are dumbing down the collective wisdom of society.