As I understand it, a synonym for "sane" is 'rational'.

In that vein I also have something to contribute: "A New Liberalism," i.e., a strictly rational form of Liberalism to replace the one based on the (non-rational) belief in 'equality' (an unnecessary complication) and some kind of a priori Rights (whether called 'Natural' or 'Human' or anything else).

Rather, this approach to justly governing the governance of society follows from the observation that human beings have no choice but to effect choices, i.e., choose among perceived alternatives and take action to bring that choice to fruition (which I got from Warren J. Samuels). That makes the capacity to choose integral to being human. So the ethic of justice becomes a requirement to respect the capacity of other people to choose whenever anyone is effecting any choice. That boils down to five absolute prohibitions: no killing, no harming, no coercing, no stealing, and no manipulating (which includes lying, cheating, etc.) in effecting any choice. This approach to justly governing society requires a democratic political process and can be applied to the existing economic system in a way that would transform the outcomes of the economy for society.

(I have approached Katz with this idea, to no avail.)