Category: progressivism

The Link Between Progressivism and Antisemitism | Church & State

In this episode, pastor Lucas Miles unpacks the rising antisemitic attacks from progressive circles and how antisemitism is becoming a tenet of liberalism. He also dives into the “why” behind the biblical command to protect Israel and how we as Christians can help live out that command. The Link Between Progressivism and Antisemitism | Church…


Will the Midterm Elections End the Progressive Agenda?

Commentary Forecasts of a Red Wave with next week’s election suggest not just a referendum on Joe Biden’s first two years as president, but also a judgment of the progressive ideas driving Democratic Party policy. We were in a similar situation with the 2016 vote, even if most Americans didn’t know it at the time….


The Real Origins of American Progressivism

Commentary It’s become a habit of late to blame foreign ideologies for what’s wrong with America. But the radical ideas driving disastrous policies and actions don’t come from communism or fascism, or even globalism. Rather, the sources of America’s self-destructive woke culture are thoroughly American. According to author and historian Lee Harris, our concept of…


The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

Commentary Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad, and safe at home—only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere survival. Civilization alone permits…


Martha’s Meltdown Model

Commentary Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from Florida that it hugged them—for all of 48 hours. Oddly, the Left became unhinged when red-state governors—whose states the last two years were flooded with some 3 million people…


Who Are You Calling a Fascist, Mr. President?

Commentary The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring…


Countering Progressivism in the US Military

Commentary The rise of communist China requires the United States to employ the entirety of its capabilities, including a professional military. If the U.S. military loses its professionalism, it will eliminate its combat effectiveness and ability to innovate. In turn, this will weaken U.S. military power and ability to sustain alliance commitments in the competition…


Peter Stockland: The Tide May Be Turning on Progressivism’s Ascension

Commentary To serve up a mangled metaphor that fits our topsy-turvy times, the tide might be turning on self-identified progressivism’s long march through the institutions. Certainly, in the bigger picture, recent events signal more than a sea change of political seasons evident in indicators such as this week’s polling numbers showing Prime Minister Trudeau’s bottomless…


Civil Society and Counterrevolution Against Progressivism

Commentary When Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell defined the paleolibertarian doctrine, they simply wanted to break the clock of social democracy and repeal the 20th century, during which some of the greatest horrors in history were created from the deranged ideas of power-hungry 19th-century intellectuals by applying these ideas with the full might of the state, costing…


Religious Fervor Among the Woke

Commentary The woke have not only adopted the ideology of “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), and assertions such as “diversity is our strength” (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), but adhere to these ideas not so much as preferred guidelines or scientific hypotheses, but as religious truths not to be questioned. Any misguided or…