The Babyproofed Society: The Urge to Eliminate Risk From American Life
The trial balloon of banning gas stoves is just another example “Babyproofed Society,” of the progressive quest to eliminate risk from American society.
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About Last Night: Nina Turner, OH-11, and The Still Applicable Lesson of 2020
Nina Turner, Shontel Brown, and OH-11 mean everything to the national political narrative. Or nothing at all. Choose your own adventure.
About Last Night: The Democrat Center Holds in Primary Results, For Now
Much ink and characters have been spilled about the Democrat “Blue Wave”, and last night with primaries in Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, and Washington we have some actual data and fresh results to add to the mix.
Waxing Un-American
Conor Williams is exasperated and disappointed with the response to his criticism of conservatives criticizing Progressivism. I’ll excuse his missing my comments, set forth below, which answer his criticism directly. But on re-reading Conor’s...
An Incorrect Venn Diagram of Liberal and Conservative Progressivism
Update 2 (see below)–Due to Conor’s recent posts on Progressivism and Conservative rhetoric, as well as comments arguing in favor of the existence of (or possibility of) Conservative Progressives, as well as a call for some guesses as...
Progressives vs. Libertarians
I really think the two sides in this argument – the libertarians on the one hand and progressives on the other – simply have a very hard time understanding truly where the other is...
culture is everything (well, mostly everything)
“In short, liberals and conservatives refuse to see the areas in which they have common ground because far too often they simply cannot get past the cultural markers that prevent them from even listening...
Progressives for a value-added tax?
Via Megan McArdle is this interesting graph from the Congressional Budget Office showing the impact the recession has had on tax revenues, organized by type of tax: I am also surprised to see that...
