“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 ...

The original Progressivism, the Progressivism that arose in the 1880s and 1890s and flourished during the first two decades of the twentieth century, was marked by a paradox. On the one hand, it ...

When thinking about political thought, we tend to take the conflict between conservatism and progressivism, or the right and ...

Suppose you wanted to design a political ideology to maximize power. What would that ideology look like? First, and most importantly, it would need to be attractive enough for people to believe it and ...

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 ...

The Democratic Party is in the midst of an important debate about the future of America’s political economy. Even as mainstream progressives campaign for further increasing public subsidies for ...

You choose to set aside the “complex idea of nomenclature,” but I don’t. Not out of orneriness, but because I wrote a book about the varieties of progressivism, as did Lawrence Cremin (“The ...

The progressive movement in the United States is generally traced back to Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, but he took his lead from predecessor Teddy Roosevelt and expanded on it. The intellectual ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas outlined how progressivism is a threat to America in a lecture at the University of Texas, Austin. SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: The ...

Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” ...

I HAVE sometimes thought that, if ever I looked back upon a well-rewarded life, one chapter in the ensuing autobiography would bear the title: ‘Second Thoughts on Having Cast a Presidential Vote for ...