Hope and change: It was the movement that surged Barack Obama into the White House, but it's not the first time America has seen this sort of political uprising. There was hope and change way back in ...
James Ceaser’s ”What’s Next for the Left?” is a must-read. You must read it. You must get your friends to read it. Your enemies, too. I would say so even if Jim weren’t a friend/teacher and an ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
One of the great impediments to understanding the progressive ideology of our age is the fact that it lacks a founding charter. There is no single, comprehensive, and authoritative document that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eberstadt is the author of several books, including It’s Dangerous to Believe and How the West Really Lost God. Put aside for a moment the Inauguration of President Donald Trump. Together, the Women’s ...