progressives

The Left’s New Goal: Degrowth – HotAir

        The left has a new goal: degrowth!          We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.         They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”         This idea […]

The Left-Right Divide Is Not Bridgeable – HotAir

        Millions of Americans, depressed by the ideological divide in America, harbor a wish that something or someone can bridge this divide.         This wish is understandable. But it is fantasy. The divide is unbridgeable. One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will […]

Combat Colonialism With … Cannibalism? – HotAir

Note: Republished from February 21. I’ve written before that Woke Will Eat Itself, but I didn’t mean it literally. Now it appears that progressives at the New Scientist have decided to promote the idea of becoming fine young cannibals* as a way to deconstruct Western civilization and counter colonialism. What this argument has to do […]

Combat Colonialism With … Cannibalism? – HotAir

I’ve written before that Woke Will Eat Itself, but I didn’t mean it literally. Now it appears that progressives at the New Scientist have decided to promote the idea of becoming fine young cannibals* as a way to deconstruct Western civilization and counter colonialism. What this argument has to do with science is anyone’s guess […]

The Left and Chaos – HotAir

        It is impossible to understand what is happening to America — and to the rest of the West — without understanding the most dynamic ideology of the last hundred years: leftism.         We need to begin with the understanding that leftism (or “progressivism”) and liberalism are not only […]