Progressivism

American political, educational, and economic life is increasingly dominated by "experts." We should not be surprised that they fail most of the time.

Ours is an age of the progressive expert who nearly always is wrong but still is embraced by progressive politicians, the media, and academe.

Marxist regimes used to slap the word "antirevolutionary" on everything the regimes disliked. Today's regimes use the words "undemocratic" and "antidemocratic" in the same way. 

Governments, billionaire elites, and NGOs have a "wonderful" plan for the rest of us called the Great Reset. They need to read Mises to know their plans are madness.

It will be nearly impossible to make any real changes in Washington for the next two years. The real battles are now in the states. 

Historian Jon Meacham urges Joe Biden to be a "transformational" president in the way of FDR, but he forgets that Roosevelt put the "Great" in "Great Depression."

While both the Left and Right celebrate the government's new drive to subsidize American microchip manufacturing, we should remember that political "investments" always result in crony capitalist disasters.

Progressives are quick to blame escalating healthcare costs on free markets, yet it's government rules and policies that are responsible.

As inflation advances and the economy slowly implodes, we also learn valuable lessons.

While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk's experiment will be.