“This not who we are,” President Obama used to say when something unbecoming to his progressivism occurred. Few caught the statement’s colossal presumptuousness, casually arrogating progressivism’s ...
Merriam-Webster defines early 20th-century “Progressivism” as “a political philosophy and social reform movement that aims to ...
Conservatives are right to become alarmed when any new socialist variant appears to be gaining political traction and to do their best to expose the intellectual errors underlying its deceptive appeal ...
As a progressive, I’m often asked if there is a real difference between progressivism and liberalism, or if progressivism is merely a nicer-sounding term for the less popular L-word. Even as the word ...
Part five of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the relationship between progressivism and America's founding. Conservatives have spent a great deal of time and effort in recent years ...
A recently published paper from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution concludes that people who hold conservative political beliefs, especially those connected to religion and ...
Here are the nine core components of progressivism. Trump nails every one, like presidents before. President Donald Trump answers a reporter's question during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the ...
I have a confession to make: I quit paying attention to the Economist more than a decade ago. I am not tempted to resume reading the London-based publication, even though every few years a columnist, ...
This is a chapter that appears in the recently released book, “Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You.” Postmodern progressivism occupies the commanding heights of ...
It’s starting to become a commonplace observation that our two parties are converging in a libertarian direction. That means, from one view, that they’re becoming demoralized. Veteran (well, elderly) ...
An epithet has emerged on the post-liberal fringes of the online conservative movement: right-liberal. It's a term these critics apply to libertarians, old-school Reaganite conservatives, and anyone ...
Herbert David Croly (1869–1930) was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century, but his influence was not limited to his own era. Croly’s ...