Young Americans and young right-wingers are correct to reject the awful status quo. But to really reject it, you first have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part five of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the relationship between progressivism and America's founding. Conservatives have spent a great deal of time and effort in recent years ...

Hope and change: It was the movement that surged Barack Obama into the White House, but it's not the first time America has seen this sort of political uprising. There was hope and change way back in ...

It’s starting to become a commonplace observation that our two parties are converging in a libertarian direction. That means, from one view, that they’re becoming demoralized. Veteran (well, elderly) ...

A recently published paper from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution concludes that people who hold conservative political beliefs, especially those connected to religion and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...