Progressivism

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”

Freedom and the free society are once again under direct attack by those who espouse far-greater degrees of government control over people’s lives.

America seems to be an increasingly politically polarized society.

The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades.

What does it mean to be on the “right” side of history?

Every American learns in grade school of the three-part structure of the U.S. government: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.

America! For more than 250 years the word has represented hope, opportunity, a second chance, and freedom. In America the accident of a man’s birth did not have to serve as an inescapable weight that dictated a person’s fate or that of his family. The American identity is shaped, not predetermined. We are a society of the free.

Achieving and sustaining such economic growth should be the central focus of national economic policy, for it would solve every problem that plagues and threatens us today.

As conservatives, we need to be conscious and well-read, and demand that our elected officials be the same.

We need more of the common sense, free of intellectually corrupting “political correctness,” displayed by the Zimmerman jury among our national leaders.

People who believe in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming do so because psychologically they want to believe in it! There are two fundamental reasons for that desire, or need to believe: money and power.

I’ve probably come across Walter Russell Mead before, but I’ve never made his posts at American Interest a regular stop. I will now. One of his latest post lays out…