by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Bret Stephens at The New York Times, Can Liberalism Survive Progressivism? If you permit petty vices and crimes to flourish, greater ones will usually follow. If you refuse to police quality-of-life infractions like public drug use or aggressive panhandling,...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 1, 2021 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
The progressive critique of the principles underlying the original American understanding of rights paved the way for an attack on those rights in practice. Progressives called for significant changes both to political institutions and to national policy that were...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
from Rationalization: The Enemy of Integrity by Jonah Goldberg at National Review One of my intellectual peeves is the idea that 20th-century progressivism was primarily about a coherent set of principles. As I’ve written countless times, progressivism was primarily...
