Commentary Ever since the publication of “The Authoritarian Personality” in 1950, liberals and leftists have often chosen a particularly cheap course of handling their conservative adversaries. The tactic works like this. When a progressive point or position is forwarded and conservatives dispute it, progressives don’t answer the objection on its own terms, refuting it with…

Commentary How often do we hear political commentators and Republican officials use the terms “liberal” and “progressive” interchangeably when discussing Democrats? Yet the meanings of the two terms could not be more different. Liberalism as a political philosophy emphasizes individual freedom, agency, and choice. Human nature, in the liberal view, is a mix of qualities:…