Category: progressivism

The Progressive Road to Serfdom

Commentary First, a tip of the hat to the late Austrian Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek for his 1944 book “The Road to Serfdom.” (pdf) The imagery of that title is clear and penetrating. Hayek was warning of generic tyranny, not a literal return to the old English system of serfdom. There are many roads…


The Mighty Gorsuch Versus the Administrative State: Quotes From West Virginia v. EPA

Commentary The power of the administrative state to destroy liberty and property—to blast through legislation, science, and judicial oversight—was never more on display than in the last two and a half years. One would hope that the deep bureaucracies would have learned their lessons on how not to respond to a new pathogen. There is…


CEOs Start to Push Back Against ‘Woke’ Employee Bullying

In an indication that corporate progressivism may be reaching its high water mark, CEOs are starting for the first time to push back against activist employees, in some cases going so far as to fire them rather than steer their companies into the mire of “woke” politics. Last week, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell became the…


Australian Liberal Senator Says His Party Needs to Stop Their Leftist Experiment

In the wake of the Liberal Party’s election loss on Saturday, Liberal senator for South Australia, Alex Antic, has stated that his party needs to stop catering to the left side of politics and return to the centre-right, where the Liberal Party values lie. “And the reality is here that this is a centre-right conservative…


The ‘Great Forgetting’: What to Do When Your Country Has an Induced Alzheimer’s

Commentary The ideological upheaval in the United States between traditional liberalism and progressivism and progressive strength is causing the “Great Forgetting”—the loss of the country’s ability to meet the challenges it once possessed. The most important of these waning abilities is how to confront and defeat great power enemies. How Did Your Country Get Alzheimer’s…


Our 1776 Moment: Either a Liberal or Progressive America

Commentary There are many moments in American history that have been significant because they have informed the principles of America’s traditional ideology of liberalism, but none as important as the present period since America’s founding. The United States is at a “1776 moment” of ideological transformation. The American Revolution of 1776 was a change of…


Equality in Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism

Commentary A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq for two years to preside over The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. Some of the young men and women enrolled in our fledgling university carried the double burden of having survived both the American invasion and the Kurdish…


Progressivism and American Foreign Policy

Commentary Given the rise of the dominance of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, it is important to consider what a progressive foreign policy would be. While progressives have centered on domestic policy, there is only a matter of time before attention is turned to international politics. Progressivism’s influence on foreign policy is important…


Progressivism and the Chinese Regime

Commentary The rise of progressivism in the United States has consequences far beyond the profound changes it is causing to American society. It has provided the Chinese regime with a weapon of political warfare to be used against the United States to undermine its foreign policy and its society. A dose of reality—the recognition by…


Why More Young People Favor Socialism and What We Should Do: Mary Eberstadt

A growing number of young people now favor socialism over capitalism. According to author Mary Eberstadt, that’s because these young people have been deliberately miseducated, and they should learn more about the history and truth. “Partly because they have been deliberately miseducated about their country’s past,” Eberstadt said in an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report”…