The swarm of busybodies and prissy reformers has been with us a long time. And in the name of progress they’ve always pushed, always hectored, always demanded that we join them on the winning side of history. What seems to elude them is the irony that it’s only the winning side if we actually do join up. With a steady-enough resistance, the self-proclaimed progress of progressivism can be halted. Take, for example, the metric system. It’s a small case, I know, but it’s also an example of success. We haven’t reached the end of the metric system, but here in 2021 we can see the end of the insistence on the metric system—the end of the notion that the metric system alone is correct. The end of the claim that the swarm of metric-measurers stand on the right side of history. The end of the sneer that the metric system …