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 ...

Nugent's book accomplishes three important things in very few pages. First, it provides an irreproachable and clear summary of the conventional view of the American Progressive movement and its ...

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 ...

“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 ...

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist You may have heard that San Francisco’s Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to ...

During his confirmation hearings, in 1991, Justice Clarence Thomas employed an arresting image to assure senators that he would be an impartial jurist. Taking the bench means “having to strip down, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...