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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our former writing fellow and later Prospect senior staff writer Ezra Klein is one of the most influential alums of this magazine, now with a column at The New York Times. Klein is ingenious, ...
It is hardly news that America’s political divide has widened considerably in recent years. Whereas past policy debates typically occurred between people with roughly similar views of history and ...
Brave and forthright intellectual Bari Weiss published in her Substack account this past week an essay written by Rob Henderson, a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University. Henderson's poignant ...
Consider progressivism’s nine core components. 1. Combating the citizenry’s false consciousness by permeating society, including cultural institutions, with government, which is politics. 2.
My sense is that President Obama wanted his administration to be the capstone of a century-long, progressive project. He wanted to consolidate the federal government’s control over key aspects of our ...
There was a time when most Democrats would have defined themselves as "liberals." "Liberalism" used to denote an emphasis on individual liberties and civil rights. Liberals certainly believed in a ...
It’s time to set the record straight. Too many who write or pontificate about Bitcoin do not know what progressivism means in the political realm of American politics — looking at you Daniel Kuhn. In ...