What does progressive conservatism mean? Labels can confuse more than they clarify, and sometimes they lie. People asked how Obamacare could raise healthcare costs. It was labeled the “Affordable Care Act.” And how could the mobs in Portland be dangerous?…
In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….
Even before the first progressive person was born, nature was already diverse. There are colorful flowers, there are brownish autumn fruits, and there are weird leafy things that make great-tasting gin and tonics. There are cute animals (pork ribs with…
Washington — One of my favorite findings about liberals — now called progressives — is that they always go too far. Even when they are pursuing a noble goal, they almost always take it to extremes and end up headed…
Some very ugly numbers for Democrats are, like our current inflation problems, probably not “transitory.” Given that President Joe Biden, as muddled as his thoughts are, must know the numbers, why does he persist in pushing his “transformational” agenda when…
It’s always the same scourge that afflicts adults: “you must adapt to new times.” That is what I was told the other day by the clerk at a clothing store when I asked him if they had any “normal ties”…
We were aware that the visible earth is made of ashes, and that ashes signify something. Through the obscure depths of history we could make out the phantoms of great ships laden with riches and intellect; we could not count…
Has the age-old conflict between liberals and conservatives ceased to matter? To put it another way, has the philosophical debate between left and right devolved into the semi-comic spectacle of “two bald men fighting over a comb”? That is how…
The dominant media is an unreliable arbiter of political labels. While it is quick to cast even the most prosaic Republicans as “hardline conservatives,” it is far more circumspect in its description of Democrats. To enhance the appeal of figures…
