progressivism

• Perhaps it's unfair to attribute that frame of mind to liberal-progressivism, but it most assuredly is not a conservative attitude. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
• A core presumption in French socialism and English and American liberal-progressivism was that science's apparent conquest of nature would also entail the ability of governments to change and perfect human nature. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
• What we have here is a soul test of several tendencies in American politics - progressivism, libertarianism, limited-government conservatism, principled defenders of managerial liberalism generally. —  Unqualified Offerings
• While counterinsurgency can afford to be agnostic to the legitimacy of a given insurgency and a given government, progressivism -- insofar as it defines itself by a foundational commitment to justice -- cannot be. —  TPMCafe
• Appropriating the surge for progressive messaging purposes without regard for broader questions of either long-term strategy or progressivism is an invitation to the foreign-policy debacles of the future, this time under a Democratic president. —  TPMCafe

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