Category: progressivism

Danger Ahead: Problems in US Civil-Military Relations

Commentary U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has expressed concern over the loss of trust and confidence of the American people in the military. While the causes are multiple, a major one is the ideological upheaval between the ideologies of liberalism and progressivism. A major consequence of this is the departure of many officers from…


Woke Ideology Is Dismantling Canada’s Self-Confidence as a Nation

Commentary In 2003, John Fonte, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, put forth an analysis of a new strain of progressive ideology that was just emerging in both domestic and international institutions. Calling it “transnational progressivism,” he described it as an ideology that prioritized the group over the individual and saw society as being a…


Progressivism in a Youth’s Eyes

Commentary Do elite liberals or progressives have anything good to say about America? Do they find anything in the nation deserving of celebration? Not much, judging from what we typically hear in the left-leaning media and in the schools and universities. The prevailing concerns in recent years are all negative. Climate change, racism past and…


Progressives Have to Recognize the CCP Threat

Commentary The Progressive wing of the Democratic Party has had much to say about the ills of U.S. society and what must be accomplished to address them, but rather less about China’s behavior under its rulers, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They do not identify the CCP for what it is, the world’s largest anti-progressive…


EpochTV Review: Why People are Fleeing Blue States and Moving to Red States

Commentary In an episode of “Counterculture,” program host Danielle D’Souza Gill talks about the mass migration of people moving from blue America to red America. Why are people relocating, not just to a different neighborhood or town, but rather flooding to different regions of the country? Gill breaks down a few key policies that are…


Progressive Classrooms, Subtler Than You Think

Commentary “What constitutes a family?” That’s one of the “Sample Guiding Questions” for Kindergarten to 2nd-grade students in the project called the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap (pdf). The Roadmap is a well-funded, amply sponsored initiative to boost civics learning in primary and secondary education, which everyone agrees is in poor condition. The goal is…


The Liberal in Crisis

Commentary Back in 1966, liberalism never seemed better. The Civil Rights Movement had just concluded with the triumphant passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Great Society programs such as the War on Poverty promised to curb other forms of inequity, too, with social servants showing the wisdom of the state in fixing…


How Progressives Rewrote American History

Commentary America’s Founders understood that political change is inevitable. They thought it must come about through constitutional mechanisms, with the consent of the governed, and must never infringe on the natural rights of citizens. Progressives—rejecting the idea that any rights, including the right of consent to government, are natural—accept no such limits. Progressivism insists that the principled…


In Pursuit of Wisdom

Commentary In an era of political correctness, virtue signaling and woke-ness, wisdom is in such short supply that when discovered it stands out like a beacon in a storm. Wisdom should not be equated with information, of which we have plenty, though information is less informative than it is directive toward outcomes preferred by its…