The False Freedom of Childish Progressivism
Untrained children represent a formidable danger to a society committed to trapping nature in the straightjacket of ideological demands and expectations. Insofar as those children have not…
Jonathan Edwards and the Re-Enchantment of the Saeculum: The Puritan and Edwardsian Roots of the Idea of Social Progress
Jonathan Edwards has been called “the American Augustine.”[1] From the threads of introspective piety to the Edwardsian conception of aesthetics, there are strong influences and inheritances from…
Progressive History and the American Founders
Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea. Bradley C. S. Watson. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Bradley Watson, professor of political…
Americanism and Progressivism
On the level of pragmatic existence, the watershed results from the civilizing process. Self-contained, autonomous, independent agrarian America is transformed into urbanized, industrialized America, and this new…