Mastodawn

“It’s the 20-year anniversary of my profile of Barack Obama…. I spent a day with the…senator and wrote an article that generated the most feedback of any I’ve ever written…[but that] now seems to have predicted much of what was to come…– bailouts for bankers who were throwing families out of their homes, watered down Wall Street regulations, and incremental health care reforms that enriched insurance companies while excluding a promised public option”
#progressivism
https://www.levernews.com/the-obama-warning-nobody-wanted-to-hear/

The Obama Warning Nobody Wanted To Hear

In 2006, I was berated for questioning Barack Obama’s progressivism. 20 years later, he proved me right.

The Lever

Home ━ The European Conservative [Unofficial]2d ago

France Descends into Chaos Again During ‘Fête de la Musique’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/france-descends-into-chaos-again-during-fete-de-la-musique/

Rupert Cocke 4d ago

Splitting progressive views from "cancel culture" is a difficult project. How should we do it? Please check out some questions to ponder on my personal blog! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/ten-difficult-questions-on-cancel #Progressivism

Twelve Difficult Questions on Cancel Culture

This week's essay has questions rather than answers

Sharpen Your Axe

Lenonn Jun 7

Everyone attacking progressives over Platner or think we have the luxury of alternatives at this point is getting blocked. Be aware of that now.

#blocking #grahamplatner #progressivism

Jonathan Emmesedi Jun 2

Thinking aloud on a work in progress:

John Dewey needs to be rescued from both his fans and his foes.

If one thinks of philosophy as not separated by unbridgeable gaps from either the natural sciences nor the study of society and its needs, then one is an heir to Dewey.

Paradoxically, his writings constitute not just a source but an obstacle for the best understanding of his thought.

He wrote too much; his collected works fill 76 volumes. Navigating such a plenitude of writings is a challenge in itself. Worse, navigating his notoriously turgid prose makes reading Dewey less like a voyage of discovery than a punishment march. The contrast with the stylish wit of fellow pragmatist William James or the rigorous elegance of his contemporary Bertrand Russell is painful.

Still, engage with Dewey one must if one is to understand both the problems, possibilities, and legacy of US progressive thought in the first half of the 20th century.

More to follow on this topic over the coming months.

Image: John Dewey -- Деветьяров Руслан -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ -- Wikimedia Commons

#JohnDewey #USHistory #Philosophy #IntellectualHistory #Progressivism #Pragmatism

Dark Photon Studio Jun 2

#American #progressivism is dead. As soon as the #americanleft understands this, it might actually make some progress, no pun intended.

LexiTheWulf Jun 1

Community is one of the only things that makes despair less convincing. Not because it magically fixes everything, but because it interrupts the lie that you are alone with the whole weight of the world. Capitalism wants us isolated because isolated people are easier to crush. Community makes us harder to erase. #Communalism #progressivism #socialism

LexiTheWulf Jun 1

Anti-capitalism is necessary, but it is not automatically liberatory by itself. People can hate capitalism and still love hierarchy. They can oppose empire and still excuse another empire. They can talk about the people while silencing actual people. They can use radical language to smuggle domination back into the room. That is why I care so much about the texture of community. Freedom is not just the name of the destination. It has to be in the method. #Communalism #progressivism #socialism

The New Yorker [Unofficial]May 21

Clarence Thomas Against Progressivism—and Progressives

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/clarence-thomas-against-progressivism-and-progressives

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Apr 17

I guess we know whose side he’s on. 😕

“‘The century of progressivism,’ Thomas claims, ‘did not go well.’ For whom? By the mid-twentieth century, progressive reforms (and, later, the New Deal laws that built upon them) helped Americans reach higher standards of living than they could have imagined. …

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#Politics #USPolitics #DeclarationOfIndependance #Progressivism #ProgressivePolitics #History #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #CivilRights #NewDeal

https://newrepublic.com/article/209183/clarence-thomas-history-progressivism-speech

Clarence Thomas Can’t Get American History Right

In his recent broadside against the twentieth century, the justice is as ill informed as he is mean-spirited.

The New Republic