“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An epithet has emerged on the post-liberal fringes of the online conservative movement: right-liberal. It's a term these critics apply to libertarians, old-school Reaganite conservatives, and anyone ...

The progressive movement in the United States is generally traced back to Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, but he took his lead from predecessor Teddy Roosevelt and expanded on it. The intellectual ...

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 ...

In his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, legal scholar and public policy analyst Ganesh Sitaraman writes the following: “When it is used today, ‘progressive’ is not usually thought of ...

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,” ...

Occupy Wall Street targeted rising inequality, as many did in the Progressive Era. Reuters A decade and a half into the 21st century, the American labor movement resembles a chronically ill patient ...

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, ...

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 ...