Manichaean

/ ˌmænɪˈkiːən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Manichaeism

2. RC Church involving a radical dualism

noun

1. an adherent of Manichaeism

Example Sentences

Brooks’ labored apologia is a history — his history — of recent American conservatism, a Manichaean fable of civilized, conscientious conservatives full of marvelous ideas and déclassé, knuckle-dragging right-wingers.

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Indeed, you can read American history — from the Civil War to Reconstruction to the civil rights movement to the age of Trump — as a long, Manichaean struggle between two opposing belief systems.

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Manichaean title notwithstanding, it is not an easy fable to parse.

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If the founding of the American republic was imbedded with ambiguities that conservatives refuse to acknowledge, the country’s greatest internal crisis ought to appeal to their generally binary, Manichaean worldview.

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Mainstream media and members of Congress were almost all enthralled with a Manichaean worldview that has evolved and persisted.

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